Treasure Hunters: Searching for Cambodia’s Stolen Antiquities | Foreign Correspondent
Treasure Hunters: Searching for Cambodia’s Stolen Antiquities | Foreign Correspondent
It’s been called the biggest art theft in history – thousands of statues stolen from temples across Cambodia and sold to private collectors and international museums, including here in Australia.
Now a team of art sleuths, on behalf of the Cambodian Government, are on a mission to bring home the country’s cultural heritage.
In this episode of Foreign Correspondent, the inside story of how Cambodia’s stolen antiquities are being tracked and returned in a global treasure hunt.
South-East Asia correspondent Mazoe Ford travels with the restitution team as they journey across the country and over borders to identify, trace and reclaim Cambodia’s missing treasures.
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There is a technology in a black that makes everyone rich , well fed, and free energy and free flying carpet or cars or houses but the elites on Earth dont wanna give it out.
Full Disclosure in 2028.
I wish India also do the same with the British 😅
As Cambodian, Thank you so much.
How about all of the museums in the west, totally full of stolen goods. Giving that back will be a good start.
ខ្ញុំសូមអរគុណដល់អ្នកទាំងអស់គ្នាជាខ្លាំង ដែលបានខ្នះខ្នែងជួយដល់វប្បធម៌ខ្មែរយើង ❤❤❤❤❤
I’m so thankful for all of you guys for hard work to bring back what is belong kmer ❤❤❤❤❤
🙏🙏🙏 thanks
*_Artefact Indonésia juga banyak yang di curi & banyak terpajang di museum luar negeri…_*
I am tearing while watching this as to how Cambodia had lost so many great things due to wars and the colonial.
Stop calling them looters.. Ther were barbarians and they tries every possible way to destroy hindu/sanatan dharma.. But you know what it cannot be destroyed it here since the very down ok human civilization and will always be there it is not born nor it’s will be destroyed.. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🕉🙏🏽🙏🏽
❤️🙏🙏🙏
MAKE A MOVIE OF LATCHFORD. it would be nice
I am crying to see these fragments are all over the places. They made million of dollars to get it for their life long income consistancy. Now they must pay back to this adorable nations.
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im cambodian. did you know theres over 1000 spirit inside Angkor Wat? Whenever a bad person enter it will make them feel sick and scared to keep going inside and the spiriti is so strong that when thailand tried to build their own version of Angkor Wat it fall apart and something blew up killing a few people. the spirit are from the people that builded the temple and fight for their empire. Such a underrated video fr.
As be half Cambodian people
I would to thank you for help looking these lost statues ❤
Even it doesn’t present in my country but yet I feel gratefully to get a chance to know that a rare statues like this exist and come from my country.
British National Museum
Amazing team❤😊
Amazing work by the investigators. I’m so grateful for the return of our gods. 🙏🙏🙏
As an cambodian people, I am very thankful and respect to all of you that trying to share all my culture to the world 🙏
Well done Australia
Thank you so much 🙏🙏
I think there are plenty of missing statues in Thailand warehouses lol😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅 Thank you foreigners for helping to find Khmer’s treasures.
Thank you so much for your great team work and bring back status to Cambodia. Your team is amazing <3
Not all artist, status is old
🙏🕊️🌳🐦🌷💗
My respect and thankful to all of the effort to return them back to Cambodia.
Pol Pot….?
Welcome to Cambodia 🙏
I live in North Carolina and I am beyond certain that many pieces of Thai and Cambodian Khmer antiquities that are in the permanent collection of the Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have dubious provenances and were in all likelihood illegally looted.
The same can be said of their equally vast holdings of ancient Bhuddist antiquities from Gandhara in Pakistan.
@12:00 “The falcon worked with another looter, the LYING. He died….”
😂😂😂😂
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Thank you for your project to reveal the truth of Cambodian culture ❤
As a Cambodian, I thank you so much for bringing those statues back to Cambodia 🙏
You can find so many stolen Khmer’s treasures inside Thailand museum storage
THANK YOU ACB NEWS FOR THIS IMPORTANT DOCUMENT.
Am so proud of the team’s that accomplish such amazing investigations by bringing back khmer ancient statues/souls to the original place 🙏🙏🙏pls have them safe guards and trust no one because now the Vietnamese that speak Khmer is controlling the whole country ! Thank you everyone you all the best. 🎉🍒🙏🍒🎉
You did great job for Cambodia and the world 🙏
My suggestion is to searching in Vietnam and Thailand. Especially in Thailand. I think they have hidden Treasures somewhere in Thai. And Vietnam too. 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿❤💜💚
The Khmer Buddha,The third Buddha statue over in Thailand all over Asian country, the most powerful Buddha on planet.
Thank you very much ❤
😊I’m accually Cambodian
and thailand also stole from cambodia. please give back the world property.
rich devils love these thing in there houses.
Thank you so much for the work you have done for Cambodia, it really means a lot to the Cambodian people.Cambodian people really appreciate what you did for us ❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏
Thank you so much for all effort putting this video up the your channel❤ just for an update in my comment section, some of it had just return back to cambodia from united states. Thank you 🙏
I wish I could have saw Angkor wat in its pristine condition.
Cambodia culture was forgotten for so long, today our government takes Keen to protect our Columbus.❤
Thank you
although I an not Cambodian but when I saw that 3 statue..tears rolled down slowly..what is this feeling?❤
It was built as a hindu temple , later during the rise of Buddhism it was converted into Buddhist temple ,hence the defaced idols of previous hindu gods