It was a time for celebration for Cambodia last week when another statue from the Prasat Chen group in Koh Ker was returned to the country from the Cleveland Museum of Art, after it was established that the statue was illegally removed and therefore looted.
US Museum returns looted statue to Cambodia
AFP, via Yahoo News, 11 May 2015
US Museum Returns Hanuman Statue to Cambodia
Cambodia Daily, 11 May 2015
Cambodia welcomes home statue returned by Cleveland Museum of Art
AP, via the News Herald.com, 12 May 2015
Hanuman statue returned (video)
Phnom Penh Post, 13 May 2015
Looted statue comes home
Phnom Penh Post, 13 May 2015
Looted Statue Officially Returned to Cambodia
Cambodia Daily, 13 May 2015
Nearly five decades after a centuries-old statue of the Hindu monkey god Hanuman was looted from a temple in Cambodia, the Cleveland Museum of Art officially handed it over to the government Tuesday during a ceremony at the Council of Ministers building.
Once part of a depiction of an epic battle between two other monkey deities, the statue was carved in the 10th century and housed at Preah Vihear province’s Prasat Chen temple, which was built as part of the one-time Khmer Empire capital of Koh Ker.
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