New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is home to more than one million works of art from nearly every era and corner of the globe. For years, it housed two bronze statues that were illegally ...

The statues were looted in the mid 1960s from the ruins of a temple in northeast Thailand. The ones at the Asian Art Museum ...

The giant Buddha statue of Wat Paknam Phasi Charoen temple is seen at the end of an avenue in Bangkok, Thailand, June 9, 2021. Reuters BANGKOK, June 21 – A Thai temple building a 230-foot Buddha ...

BANGKOKBANGKOK — Thailand’s National Museum hosted a welcome-home ceremony Tuesday for two ancient statues that were illegally trafficked from Thailand by a British collector of antiquities and were ...

BANGKOK (Reuters) – Certain historical statues have been disappearing in Thailand, but they are not effigies of colonialists or slave owners torn down by protesters. Instead, Thailand’s vanishing ...

BANGKOK – At a military base outside Bangkok, soldiers stand guard over Buddha statues, showcases of Rolex watches and some very expensive French wine — a $4,000 bottle of Petrus and choice vintages ...

A Cambodian military police officer suspected of smuggling antiquities was arrested on Saturday after Thai soldiers found three Cambodian Buddhist statues in his car, Phnom Penh Post reports. The ...

An Australian citizen has returned nine wooden Buddha statues to Thailand after more than a century in his family’s possession. The return of the diminutive carved statues, each of which stands around ...

A landmark 26 foot Thai statue of St. Anne revered by local fishermen was knocked down last week, after being hit by a oil tanker. The statue depicting St. Anne with the child Mary was located near ...

Thai person looks at a standing Shiva sculpture from the 11th century during repatriation ceremony at National Museum in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, May 21, 2024. Thailand's National Museum hosted a ...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Certain historical statues have been disappearing in Thailand, but they are not effigies of colonialists or slave owners torn down by protesters. Instead, Thailand's vanishing ...