Ancient Khmer jewels recovered from London pub parking lot after decades-long looting

Millions of Cambodians were killed or starved under the Khmer Rouge regime; the looting trade itself resulted in violence and murders over these antiquities.

In the long aftermath of genocide and war, the ornaments of Khmer kings — looted from sacred temples by former child soldiers and quietly absorbed into the Western antiquities trade — have found their way back to Cambodia. A single American lawyer, following testimony and old photographs, traced royal crowns and jewels to a British dealer's estate, ultimately recovering them from Tupperware boxes in a London pub parking lot. The return of these objects, blessed by monks in a formal ceremony, speaks to something older than law or diplomacy: the human need to reclaim what was taken, and to resto

Ancient Khmer jewels recovered from London pub parking lot after decades-long looting

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