Thousands of precious antiquities disappeared from Cambodia during decades of war and strife. Now the country is taking on California museums to get them back.
Where and how to display them remain open questions. Visitors to the National Museum of Cambodia in Phnom Penh in January.Credit...Thomas Cristofoletti for The New York Times Supported by By Mike ...
Folk Museum preserves artefacts from displaced Tai Hang Sai Estate residents The pieces returned to Cambodia from the Met were looted during a long period of civil war and instability in Cambodia ...
as well as at other museums and in the hands of private collectors. "These returns contribute to the reconciliation and healing of the Cambodian people, who endured decades of civil war and ...
Cambodian lawmakers have approved a bill that will toughen penalties for anyone denying that atrocities were carried out in the late 1970s under the rule of the Khmer Rouge, whose brutal policies are ...
The museum's newest temporary exhibition ... and over the course of the Khmer Rouge regime and the Cambodian Civil War in the 1960s and 1970s, all nine of those sculptures were looted and ...