Thailand will receive two sculptures carved during the ancient Angkor era from the Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) in New York City after researchers determined they were stolen and trafficked by a British "art dealer" in the 1970s.
The two statues are part of a group of 16 Khmer art ancient artifacts that the world-renowned museum is returning to Cambodia and Thailand. The Met described the pieces as "among the finest surviving examples of sculptures from the Angkor period."
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