Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Douglas Latchford

The FBI helped solve a decades-old mystery involving priceless artifacts

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has received a collection of repatriated cultural artifacts from FBI Director Kash Patel during a meeting in Jakarta

The Independent UK · Jul 23

Cambodia welcomes return from abroad of centuries-old artifacts looted by notorious smuggling ring

Cambodia welcomes home 74 ancient artifacts that officials say looters stole during decades of war and unrest

The Independent UK · Feb 27

Repatriation or political theatre? How the return of stolen artefacts can distort history

In late July, during a visit to the National Gallery of Australia, three Buddhist bodhisattva statues caught my attention.

The Conversation · Sep 25, 2025

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Thailand readies homecoming for stolen ancient statues located in US museum

San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum is set to return four bronze statues from Thailand’s looted Prakhon Chai hoard.

Al Jazeera · May 24, 2025

Cambodia Celebrates Return Of Precious Artifacts From Abroad

Cambodia repatriates 70 looted artifacts, including Hindu and Buddhist masterpieces, from abroad, marking a significant milestone in cultural heritage pres...

Cambodia's prime minister leads warm welcome home for looted artifacts

Cambodia’s prime minister has led a celebration of the return of dozens of precious centuries-old artifacts from museums and private collectors abroad, and said his government will continue working with others to bring home more such cultural treasures

The Independent UK · Aug 22, 2024

Cambodia welcomes the Metropolitan Museum's repatriation of statues looted over decades of turmoil

Cambodia’s culture minister says the return to Cambodia this week of 14 sculptures that had been looted from the country during a period of war and unrest is like welcoming home the souls of ancestors

The Independent UK · Jul 4, 2024

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Thailand welcomes the return of trafficked antiquities from New York's Metropolitan Museum

Thailand's National Museum has hosted a welcome-home ceremony for two ancient statues illegally trafficked from Thailand by a British collector of antiquities that were returned from the collection of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Independent UK · May 21, 2024

Thailand Celebrates Return Of Looted Statue From New York's Met

A 900-year-old statue that spent three decades at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York after being smuggled out of Thailand was welcomed back to the kingdom in an official repatriation ceremony in Bangkok on Tuesday.

International Business Times · May 21, 2024

Cambodia welcomes the Metropolitan Museum of Art's plan to return looted antiquities

Cambodia has welcomed the announcement that New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art will return more than a dozen pieces of ancient artwork to Cambodia and Thailand

The Independent UK · Dec 16, 2023

New York Metropolitan Museum will return stolen ancient sculptures

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art will return 16 ancient pieces of artwork to Cambodia and Thailand that federal prosecutors say were tied to an art dealer and collector accused of running a huge antiquities trafficking network out of Southeast Asia

The Independent UK · Dec 15, 2023

Priceless seventh-century bronze statue returned to Vietnam

The two-metre tall statue of Hindu Goddess Kali Durga was allegedly stolen in 2008 and handed over to officials at the Vietnam Embassy in London

The Independent UK · Sep 15, 2023

South-east Asian countries demand Denver museum return looted artefacts

Officials from Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand accuse the Denver Art Museum of possessing stolen antiquities and asked for return of eight pieces that were looted from temples and historical sites

The Guardian - US · Aug 23, 2023

National Gallery of Australia hands back ninth-century Cambodian sculptures it believes were stolen

NGA investigation finds ‘on the balance of probabilities’ the three Cham sculptures bought from the notorious UK dealer Douglas Latchford were looted and sold illegally

The Guardian - AU · Aug 2, 2023

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Asharq Al-Awsat · Mar 17, 2023

Cambodia Celebrates Return of ‘Priceless’ Stolen Artifacts

Centuries-old cultural artifacts that had been illegally smuggled out from Cambodia were welcomed home Friday at a celebration led by Prime Minister Hun Sen, who offered thanks for their return and appealed for further efforts to retrieve such stolen treasures. Many, if not all, of the items displayed at the…

The Independent UK · Mar 17, 2023

Cambodia celebrates return of 'priceless' stolen artifacts

Centuries-old cultural artifacts that had been illegally smuggled out from Cambodia have been welcomed home at a celebration led by Prime Minister Hun Sen, who offered thanks for their return and appealed for further efforts to retrieve such stolen treasures

Bangkok Post · Mar 17, 2023

Cambodia hails return of 'priceless' Angkor jewellery

PHNOM PENH: Cambodian leader Hun Sen on Friday unveiled a collection of stolen Angkor crown jewellery that was recently returned to the kingdom after decades in Britain, pleading for other long-lost treasures to be handed back.

The Guardian - UK · Mar 11, 2023

The week in audio: Dynamite Doug; Death of an Artist; Cover Up: Ministry of Secrets and more

A week of mysteries spanned looted Cambodian treasures, the death of artist Ana Mendieta, missing MI6 diver Buster Crabb and Classic FM’s newest recruit

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

WEKU · Feb 21, 2023

A collection of rare centuries-old jewelry returns to Cambodia

Cambodia's government said the pieces of jewelry that arrived back in their homeland included items "... precious metal pieces from the Pre-Angkorian and Angkorian period."

Bangkok Post · Feb 21, 2023

Trove of looted gold returns to Cambodia

Some were jewel-encrusted diadems worn by Angkor royalty as far back as the ninth century. Other items were also treasured legacies of Cambodia’s past: belts and necklaces woven from fine gold filaments, or body ornaments shaped into rosettes and scrolling vines.

The Independent UK · Feb 21, 2023

Collection of rare centuries-old jewelry returns to Cambodia

A spectacular collection of centuries-old jewelry has been returned to Cambodia

Evening Standard · Feb 20, 2023

Stolen crown jewels returned to Cambodia after being handed over in London

London art dealer accused of smuggling precious artefacts was in possession of Angkorian treasure

The Independent UK · Sep 30, 2022

Two UK museums open up their collection to Cambodian archaeologists looking for looted treasure

Cambodian government says artefacts could have been illegally brought into the UK museums

Bangkok Post · Aug 19, 2022

Cambodia says lost artifacts found in Gallery 249 at the Met

In the 1970s, long after its encyclopaedic collection had been acknowledged as among the world’s finest, the Metropolitan Museum of Art recognised it had slender holdings in South or Southeast Asian art. One in-house estimate suggested that no more than 60 objects were worth exhibiting.

The Independent UK · Aug 8, 2022

Cambodian ambassador: Looted artworks are 'souls' of culture

Cambodia’s ambassador to the United States says the return of 30 antiquities to his country by U.S. law enforcement authorities is like a returning of the souls of Cambodia's culture

1 2

Coverage From

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

the Metropolitan Museum of Art

National Gallery of Australia

67 stories

Metropolitan Museum of Art

53 stories

The National Gallery of Australia

53 stories

the Denver Post

52 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.