Khmer artefacts return to Cambodia.(Brief Article)

From 1-31 March 2000, the National Museum of Bangkok, Thailand, held a special exhibition entitled `Khmer Artifacts Return to Cambodia'. It displayed, in the open air (FIGURE 1), some reconstructed bas-reliefs from the 12th-century AD Cambodian temple of Banteay Chmar, which were discovered as blocks in a van on Thai territory last year. The temple is located in northwest Cambodia, and has often been mentioned and illustrated in the literature, so that its carvings are well known.

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Khmer artefacts have been pirated for centuries, often being ...

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