French museum reunites head with decapitated Khmer statue

After almost 130 years apart, the head and body of a seventh-century Khmer statue are to be reunited at the National Museum of Cambodia thanks to an exchange agreement with the Musée Guimet in Paris, France’s national museum of Asian art. The restored sculpture of Harihara, a fusion of the Hindu gods Vishnu (Hari) and Shiva (Hara), will be inaugurated at the Phnom Penh museum tomorrow (21 January).
The head, which has been in the Musée Guimet’s collection since 1889, w