Looted artefacts return to Cambodia
Seven artefacts, most of them heads of statues, find their way back to Cambodia after they are confiscated in Thailand. ...
Tag: looting
The act of looting or stealing during a disturbance is a form of cultural theft. Looted artifacts often become part of the antiquities trade in Southeast Asia. In some cases, artifacts whose provenance can be established are repatriated to their home countries.
Philippine police detain man transporting excavated skeletons
The police in Manila detain a Japanese man transporting some 100 skeletal remains. While the Japanese man has a permit ...
Majapahit's looting woes
This piece from the Jakarta post reveals more about the poor management of archaeological heritage in Trowulan and the downward ...
Thailand will return seized artefacts to Cambodia
Thailand said that it might, and now it turns out it will. In an effort to repair the damage caused ...
Report of looting in Cambodia, with involvement by the authorities
Khmerization translates an article in Koh Santeapheap about the looting of a 1,000-year-old man-made hill in Svay Rieng Province. The ...
Wednesday Rojak #45
In this week's rojak we go back in time to see Angkor Wat in the 1930s and remember the late ...
Archaeology in a war zone
Last month, a hoard of rare potsherds that were looted from an archaeological site in Mindanao, Philippines, was intercepted by ...
Looted artefacts may represent an entirely different tribe
It's taken a long time, but Philippine archaeologists are finally examining a set of anthropomorphic jars that were recently seized ...
Philippine Archaeologists speak out against illicit trading in antiquities
KAPI, a community of archaeologists in the Philippines, has released a statement calling for better enforcement of heritage protection laws, ...
Philippine tunnel workers get heritage training
Tunnel workers working under Plaza Independencia in Cebu City will undergo heritage training to recognise and preserve pre-hispanic artefacts they ...
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