Cambodia celebrates return of 'priceless' stolen Angkor jewellery

Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen (right) praying in front of a statue during a ceremony held to unveil a collection of stolen Angkorian artefacts at the Peace Palace in Phnom Penh. - AFP

PHNOM PENH (AFP: Cambodian leader Hun Sen unveiled a collection of stolen Angkor crown jewellery on Friday (March 17) which was recently returned to the kingdom after decades in Britain, pleading for other long-lost treasures to be handed back.

Gold crowns, necklaces and amulets were among the trove of treasures from the Angkor period, which ran from the ninth to 14th centuries AD when the Khmer empire dominated vast parts of South-East Asia.