Cambodia ‘highly suspicious’ about statues in British museums in hunt for looted art
via The Telegraph, 30 October 2022: The statue in the Ashmolean Museum came from a no-go zone, making its existence ...
Tag: repatriation
Stories about the return of antiquities (often stolen) and archaeological materials.
See also: looting
Artefact hunters focus on Asia
via Khmer Times, 25 Oct 2022: A Singapore museum (probably the same one mentioned in the last story) is mentioned.
Cambodia’s missing artefacts: Team to call on Asian Civilisations Museum in Singapore
via Channel NewsAsia, 21 October 2022: The Asian Civilisations Museum is among a few museums in Asia that Cambodia is ...
Indonesia Calls For Return Of ‘Java Man,’ and Countless Art and Natural Historical Objects, From Netherlands
via Art News, 20 October 2022: Among the cultural objects Indonesia wants repatriated are the Lombok treasure, taken at the ...
Putting the past to rest with repatriated artifacts
via Jakarta Post, 04 October 2022: A story on the recent return of the Tek Sing cargo from Australia to ...
Last Week Tonight on Museums, Looted Antiquities and Repatriation
Last week Tonight is a weekly American comedy news show - in the most recent episode, host John Oliver takes ...
Cambodian team hunting looted treasures visits UK museums
via BBC News, 30 September 2022: The Victoria & Albert Museum and British Museum are opening up their collections to ...
[Seminar] The ‘Soul of Our Nation’: Restitution of Khmer Antiquities
Readers may be interested in this hybrid event hosted by SOAS on 6 October about the effects of restitutions and ...
Cambodia reclaims 258 looted antiquities from abroad in last 5 years: official
via China.org, 22 September 2022: Update on recent repatriations of artefacts to Cambodia, from Hungary, Japan, the US, Thailand and ...
The Met’s Cambodia Problem
via The Diplomat, 20 September 2022: This story focuses on the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its relationship with the ...
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