Looted Angkor jewellery returned to Cambodia

[geovalin]

PHNOM PENH: A set of ancient Angkorian gold jewellery was returned to Cambodia on Saturday (Dec 2) with an elaborate procession through the capital, decades after the precious pieces were looted from a famed jungle temple.

 

The 10-piece set, which includes a crown, earrings, armbands and a chest ornament, was stolen from Cambodia's Angkor Wat temple during the kingdom's civil war in the 1970s and was discovered in the online catalogue of a London art dealer last year.

 

The items are thought to date back to the Khmer Empire, a once-mighty dynasty that sprawled much of modern-day Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam and Laos between the ninth and 15th centuries.

 

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[UKJASE]

dodgy brits had them?

 

[KNJ]

Just now, UKJASE said:

dodgy brits had them?

 

That would be dodgy Pikey Brits.......... Pikeys I hate pikeys