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When the Looting of Cambodian Antiquities Went All Wrong

Summary by neatorama.com
In the mid-19th century, France colonized a chuck of southeast Asia that now comprises Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. In Cambodia, the French tried to protect the ornately-carved ancient temples built a thousand years earlier that were being reclaimed by the rainforest. In 1923, a young French couple, André and Clara Malraux, arrived with a plan to loot a few of those carvings to sell and sustain a lifestyle they would like to grow accustomed to. …
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neatorama.com broke the news in on Friday, April 3, 2026.
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