Wednesday, 12 June 2013
New York museum returns 'looted' Cambodian statues
Posted on 00:27 by gaurav kumar
A Khmer statue arrives at Phnom Penh international airport
Mak Remissa/EPA
11 June 2013
BBC News
Two 10th Century Khmer
statues, believed to have been looted from a temple in Cambodia decades
ago, have been sent back from the United States.
The life-size sculptures, known as the "kneeling attendants",
had been displayed at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art for nearly
20 years.
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