Treasure Hunters: Searching for Cambodia’s Stolen Antiquities | Foreign Correspondent
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Published 2023-08-03
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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All Comments (21)
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I visited Cambodia for the first time recently. Such a beautiful country with kind people. I appreciate Brad Gordon and the team. I appreciate museums and countries around the world who recognize their wrong doing and return these precious antiquities. Please continue to return these historical artifacts. I hope to return to visit Cambodia again one day.
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As an Indonesian, we both rich in cultures, and I can understand the pain when the arts made by our greatest empires stolen like that. Good job for bringing back the national treasure.
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Lot's of love to cambodia from Nepal...thank u for preserving our Hindu and Buddhist cultural heritage...🙏♥️😇🇳🇵🇳🇵
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As Cambodian I very thankful for those who involved with this work to return all statues to where they belong to. Thank you 🙏🇰🇭❤️
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This video is underrated Cambodian people should watch and thankful for the amount of work you guys put in and thank you for making anything like this happen.
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Ancient treasures of Cambodia are priceless,they belong to Cambodia and they are the national symbols of Cambodia. Countries around the that had looted these precious antiquities or however they had obtained them,must return them to the rightful owner,thank you for doing the right thing for Cambodia
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Thank you Australia for these artifacts back to Cambodia where they are belongs. Thank you kindly for restoring our ancestors through arts. These are Cambodian hearts and soul of the Khmer people.
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Thank you Australia for returning them to Cambodia, we are the good partnership since long time ago. I love you Australia. From Cambodia ❤
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Thank you Brad Gordon and team for recovering those antiques back to Cambodia. For Cambodian, it feels like being reincarnated seeing these statues return.
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Most antiques items were stolen and sole to Thailand and Thailand sole some statues to USA and England. Most Cambodian statues and antiques items now are in Thailand, France, England USA and many other countries.
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On behalf of Cambodians, I appreciate your hard work Grad Gordon and the team to bring our ancient statues back to their home in Cambodia. I hope this video should translate to Cambodian so they can understand this amazing video. Arkoun, Thankful 🙏💕
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As a Cambodian who resides in Australia, I am so thankful that this kind of investigation happen at this present time. Obviously, seeing these statues and artefacts which have been written in a wrong history as it belongs to Thailand/Vietnam in the National Gallery, does impact a lot on the people of Cambodia and this is what we as Cambodians could not tell the world that those are ours.
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It is heart broken to see all the statues were stolen. Thanks for all the help
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I was 😭 cry after they found the statue and returned them back to our homeland, I am so proud and appreciate ur team work hard and have a amazing job ❤❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏🇰🇭🇰🇭🇰🇭 god blessed u all
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Cambodian peoples Thank you to Australia for return this bronze statues back to Cambodia, This mean alot to Cambodian peoples, The spirits of our Ancesters, Brad and Cambodian team, Thank you so much for your hard work
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Welcome back home our Cambodia precious status 😭😭😭❤️🇰🇭 uncountable thanks to the project team for ur hard work for preserve our heritage culture back 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏.....
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@as a Cambodian citizen , I do feel overwhelm and appreciate for all your hard works and efforts of Brand Gordon and his team.
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As a Cambodian, I would like express my great sincere gratitudes to Your hard working team for helping to returning our ancestor artifacts to Cambodia, your actions is beyond my words 🙏
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Our ancestors will come back home soon ! thanks you too all of your great heart and great teams
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This is an amazing job. Thank you for such challenging mission for Cambodia. My heart aches while I am watching the video. I hope many more antiquities would return to the Mainland in the future.
