A collection of Cambodian jewelry has been returned to the Asian country. The jewels being returned were under the care of a man who was accused of buying and selling looted artifacts.
A collection of 77 pieces of pre-Angkorian and Angkorian jewellery is safely back in the Kingdom after being returned by the family of late British antiquities trader Douglas Latchford. A handover ceremony was conducted in the UK on February 12, and the pieces arrived home on February 17.
The debate has clearly shifted. Until recently, any demand or request that the British should return the large number of artefacts from former colonies cur..