THE Thai Fine Arts Department has received four ancient bronze sculptures, three of them Bodhisattvas and one the Buddha, that had been smuggled to US by an unscrupulous art dealer and officially returned by San Francisco Museum of Asian Art on Dec. 8, Naewna newspaper said today (Jan. 6). Villagers living around Khao Plai
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No evidence Golden Boy was adorned with diamonds
A THAI archaeologist quashed rumours that the antique bronze sculpture “Golden Boy” which the Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) in New York City is officially handing over to Thailand today (May 21) together with another antique bronze sculpture of a kneeling woman had been adorned with diamonds, Amarin TV said. Dr. Tanongsak Hanwong,
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