{"id":9139,"date":"2023-12-25T10:40:25","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T10:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=9139"},"modified":"2023-12-25T10:40:25","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T10:40:25","slug":"new-yorks-met-museum-returns-16-looted-artifacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/25\/new-yorks-met-museum-returns-16-looted-artifacts\/","title":{"rendered":"New York\u2019s Met Museum Returns 16 Looted Artifacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Agencies &#8211; Sudan Events<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Metropolitan Museum of Art will return 16 pieces 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 , According to Fortune .<br \/>\nCambodia has welcomed the announcement that New York\u2019s Metropolitan Museum of Art will\u00a0return more than a dozen pieces of ancient artwork\u00a0to Cambodia and Thailand that were tied to an art dealer and collector accused of running a huge antiquities trafficking network out of Southeast Asia.<br \/>\nThis most recent repatriation of artwork comes as many museums in the United States and Europe reckon with collections that contain\u00a0objects looted from Asia, Africa and other places during centuries of colonialism or in times of upheaval.<br \/>\nFourteen Khmer sculptures will be returned to Cambodia and two will be returned to Thailand, the Manhattan museum announced Friday, though no specific timeline was given.<br \/>\n\u201cWe appreciate this first step in the right direction,\u201d said a statement issued by Cambodia\u2019s Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts. \u201cWe look forward to further returns and acknowledgements of the truth regarding our lost national treasures, taken from Cambodia in the time of war and genocide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9141\" src=\"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG-20231225-WA0038-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG-20231225-WA0038-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG-20231225-WA0038-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG-20231225-WA0038-390x220.jpg 390w, https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG-20231225-WA0038.jpg 936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agencies &#8211; Sudan Events The Metropolitan Museum of Art will return 16 pieces 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 , According to Fortune . Cambodia has welcomed the announcement that New York\u2019s Metropolitan &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9142,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9139\/revisions\/9142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}