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This is the best summary I could come up with:
New York's Metropolitan Museum will return 16 pieces of ancient art to Thailand and Cambodia after determining it had been illegally looted.
"As demonstrated with today's announcement, pieces linked to the investigation of Douglas Latchford continue to reveal themselves," US Homeland Security Special Agent Erin Keegan said in a statement on Friday.
He added that the museum is "committed to pursuing partnerships and collaborations with Cambodia and Thailand that will advance the world's understanding and appreciation of Khmer art, and we look forward to embarking on this new chapter together".
The art is from the 9th to 14th Centuries, during the Angkorian period, and reflects both Buddhist and Hindu influences, according to the museum.
Dozens of artworks stolen by Latchford, who died in 2020 while facing the US charges, have been traced and recovered by investigators across the US and UK in the last decade.
Much of the looting took place over a three-decade period of civil war and strife between the mid-1960s to the late-1990s when the Khmer Rouge regime held power.
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