Bopha Phorn / BBC Statues in a secret warehouse in Cambodia, to protect them from looters One looter, known as Iron Princess, says she worked almost every day in the 1990s to systematically ...
At a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Cambodia, 12 sandstone statues were unearthed, and some of them were more than a thousand years old. The discovery took place in Angkor, which is one of three ...
The artefacts were returned in a formal ceremony on Friday Australia's national gallery will return three 9th and 10th Century bronze sculptures to Cambodia, after they were found to be stolen.
Or, as put by Angelina Jolie: How can art about the Cambodian genocide "be cathartic and not traumatic?" Upon taking power in 1975, the Khmer Rouge engineered a vast reordering of society, ordering ...
Cambodia's National Authority mentioned about the handover of statues in a news release issued on February 1. According to the release, the ASI found the statues during the removal of the stones ...
At a handover ceremony, Susan Templeman, Australia's special envoy for the arts, said handing the sculptures back to Cambodia was "an opportunity to put right a historical wrong".