Cambodia celebrates return of ‘priceless’ stolen Angkor jewelery
The tradition ministry final month discretely acquired 77 items from the household of the late, disgraced British artwork vendor Douglas Latchford.
Two Tenth-century sculptures lately returned by the US had been additionally displayed on Friday.
Dominic Williams, the British ambassador to Cambodia, tweeted that it was an “extraordinary privilege to see these beforehand stolen artifacts displayed of their ancestral house”.
When he died in 2020, Latchford was awaiting a trial in the US for artwork trafficking, and the identical yr his household agreed to return the antiquities to Cambodia.
The household returned 5 stone and bronze artifacts in 2021.
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