New York’s Metropolitan Museum will return stolen ancient sculptures to Cambodia and Thailand

On Friday, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, one of the largest and most important museums in the world, said it will return to Thailand and Cambodia

New York-museum återlämnar plundrad konst

New York-museet Metropolitan Museum of Art återlämnar 16 uråldriga skulpturer från Khmerrikets dagar till sina ursprungsländer. Fjorton av dem till Kambodja och två till Thailand. Föremålen är kopplade till den kontroversielle, brottsanklagade och numera avlidne konsthandlaren Douglas Latchford. År 2019 åtalades Latchford för att från sitt säte ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York returns 16 ancient statues from the days of the Khmer Empire to their original countries. Fourteen of them to Cambodia and two to Thailand.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art returns 16 ancient statues from the Khmer Empire to their original countries.

The Met to return stolen Cambodian antiquities - National Zero

More than a dozen ancient Cambodian artifacts and relics looted during the Cambodian civil war in the 1960s-’70s and purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art via a questionable art trader will be returned to the Cambodian government, the WNBC NBC-4 New York reports. Obtained through art dealer Douglas Latchford, who was later charged for his involvement in an art smuggling scheme but died before trial, the sixteen pieces were returned in two …

Relics tied to alleged smuggler will return to Cambodia, U.S. museum says

The repatriation of the artworks follows years of questions regarding whether the Metropolitan Museum of Art had pieces looted by Douglas Latchford, a key figure in a 2021 Washington Post article about the widespread ransacking of ancient Khmer sites.