Happy Hanuman: US returns 1,000yo statue to Cambodia

The 10th century statue of Hanuman, the Hindu monkey god, displayed at the Council of Ministers in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Returned to Cambodia by the Cleveland Museum of Art on May 12, it was thought to have been stolen from the gate of an ancient temple sometime during the country's civil war in the 1960s. Photo: Reuters/Samrang Pring

Home sweet home: A 10th century statue of Hanuman, the Hindu monkey god, displayed at the Council of Ministers in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Returned to Cambodia by the Cleveland Museum of Art on May 12, it was thought to have been stolen from the gate of an ancient temple sometime during the country's civil war in the 1960s. Photo: Reuters/Samrang Pring

Cambodians are overjoyed to welcome the return of a 10th century statue of Hanuman – the mischievous Hindu monkey god with a human body and a monkey's head and tail – that was allegedly looted from the gate of an ancient temple complex decades ago.