Thirty more Cambodian artefacts set to arrive home in September

via Phnom Penh Post, 19 July 2022: Among the pieces is the famous Skanda on a peacock sculpture.

The US government will hand over 30 more Cambodian artefacts confiscated from private collections and museums in the US to Cambodia’s representatives in New York in early August.

Hab Touch, spokesman for the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts, told The Post on July 19 that the return of the items was being done in accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between the US and Cambodian governments Cambodia for “Restrictions on the Importation of Cambodian Antiquities”.

The culture ministry has worked in close cooperation with the US authorities in recent years to ensure that Cambodian cultural properties that were illegally looted and taken from the Kingdom have subsequently been confiscated and returned, Touch said.

Source: Thirty more Cambodian artefacts set to arrive home in September | Phnom Penh Post