#Prasat Chen (temple)

[southeastasianarchaeology]

Geological Study Underway at Prasat Chen

A joint team is studying the impact of landslides on Chen Temple's stability within the Koh Ker complex, aiming to ensure the ancient site's preservation through detailed geological analysis.

via Khmer Times, 20 February 2024: The National Authority for Preah Vihear and the Institute of Technology of Cambodia have initiated a geological study at the Prasat Chen within the Koh Ker complex to assess the impact of landslides on its stability. This critical research aims to understand the soil composition and topography beneath the temple to devise conservation strategies. The National…

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Photo by @RobertClarkphoto // I was able to photograph One of the statues that was displayed (on the left) for two decades at New York's Met Museum. Now two 10th-century statues have been repatriated to Cambodia, thus underlining the challenges for institutions possessing allegedly looted art work. "This is a case in which additional information regarding the 'Kneeling Attendants' has led the museum to consider facts that were not known at the time of the acquisition and to take the action we are announcing today," Met director Thomas P. Campbell said. The statue was taken during the civil war from the Prasat Chen temple at Koh Ker in the early 1970's. #followback #instafollow #tagforlikes #beautiful

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Momentum gains to unite ancient Cambodian statues

Rising out of the jungle on white pillars, the new Preah Vihear Museum's largest building stands empty. But Cambodian officials hope that one day it will be the place where nine ancient statues depicting a dramatic battle scene are reunited from around the world.

They came a step closer to that goal last week, when Sotheby's auction house in New York agreed to return one of the statues to Cambodia, ending a heated legal battle that began when the U.S. government filed a lawsuit last year at Cambodia's initiative to press for its return.

The decision marks the latest progress in efforts to bring back together the nine figures that once formed a tableau in a tower of the 1,000-year-old Prasat Chen temple. The scene captured a famous duel in Hindu mythology in which the warrior Duryodhana is struck down by his cousin Bhima at the end of a bloody war of succession while seven attendants look on. Read more.