Khmer artefacts arrive home from New York


Two of the 14 repatriated antiquities - The Head of Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Infinaite Compassion from the 10th-century (left) and the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara Seated in Royal Ease - from the 10th or 11th century. - Photos: The Met

PHNOM PENH: The Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts announced that 14 cultural artefacts touched down in the Kingdom on Wednesday (July 3).

Their impending return, from one of the largest cultural institutions in the world, New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art (the "MET"), was announced in December last year.

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