
Thailand Rejoices as Stolen Statue Returns Home from New York’s Metropolitan Museum
The Return of a Stolen Statue: A Tale of Repatriation A 900-year-old statue that spent three decades at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York after being smuggled out of Thailand was welcomed back to the kingdom in an official repatriation ceremony in Bangkok on Tuesday. The 129-centimeter (51-inch) statue of the Hindu god…