The Met to return looted ancient artworks to Thailand and Cambodia

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The Met to return looted ancient artworks to Thailand and Cambodia

www.bbc.com

Lee Duna to

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The works were taken by a rogue British art smuggler who died in 2020 while facing US looting charges.

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British Museum *whistles*
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  They’re checking out intercepting that shipment.

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Archaeology or archeology[a] is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscapes.

Archaeology has various goals, which range from understanding culture history to reconstructing past lifeways to documenting and explaining changes in human societies through time.

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