26-02-2016 21:20 via theartnewspaper.com

Cambodian warrior comes home: Denver Art Museum returns Khmer statue

The Denver Art Museum has returned a tenth-century statue of the warrior god Rama to its native Cambodia, where it was removed from the Prasat Chen temple complex in Koh Ker, the capital of the Khmer kingdom, more than 40 years ago during the civil war there.
A spokeswoman for the museum confirmed on Friday, 26 February, that the work had arrived in Cambodia. “As part of our own collections research, the Denver Art Museum contacted our museum colleagues in Cambodia to gather more facts on
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