PHNOM PENH: Buddhist monks in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh chanted blessings and threw flowers to welcome 14 trafficked artefacts repatriated from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
The Angkorian artworks, which included a 10th century goddess sandstone statute and a large Buddha head from the 7th century, were stolen by antiquities trafficker Douglas Latchford before ending up in New York.“I am so glad and so happy to see our ancestors back home,” Cambodian Culture Minister Phoeurng Sackona said at the repatriation ceremony.
He was charged in 2019 by prosecutors in New York with smuggling looted Cambodian relics and helping to sell them on the international art market.The Met said in December that it would return 14 antiquities to Cambodia and two to Thailand a fter they were linked to Latchford. A 900-year-old statue of the Hindu god Shiva and a bronze sculpture of a female figure were returned to Thailand by the museum in May.
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