NEW YORK — Federal agents have threatened to seize from Sotheby’s a 10th century Cambodian sandstone statue, alleging the auction house planned to sell it despite warnings that looters had ...

The statue is carved with jewelry, a robe, and a sash. The left hand is brought across the chest in a gesture that researchers have called “uncommon” in period Khmer art.

Thirty-three artifacts, including statues and artwork, belonging to the Khmer people of the Kingdom of Cambodia will be returned to their native land, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern ...

Bunker and Latchford wrote three books together exploring Khmer art, and enjoyed a 30-year friendship, according to the New York Times. She’s not named in Monday’s forfeiture filing.

A Denver Art Museum spokesperson said in an email that the sculpture was on loan to the museum from February 2001 through December 2003. “The museum was not a party to the acquisition or sale of ...

New York officials have returned 30 cultural artifacts to Cambodia, including a 10th-century Khmer sculptural “masterpiece,” after the items were illegally sold to private collectors and a US ...

The pieces returned to Cambodia from the Met were looted during a long period of civil war and instability in Cambodia, which was ruled by the brutal communist Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - The Cleveland Museum of Art's seventh-century Cambodian statue of the Hindu god Krishna, a broken masterpiece painstakingly reassembled in 1978, is ready for a yearlong radical ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Cambodia on Monday welcomed home a 10th-century Khmer statue that was looted during the country’s civil war before spending the past three decades at an American museum.