Following discussions with the Office of the Council of Ministers of Cambodia, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has recently decided to repatriate to the Kingdom of Cambodia two 10 th century stone statues of “Kneeling Pandavas” (sometimes known as “Kneeling Attendants”) illicitly removed from Prasat Chen in Koh Ker at the time of the country’s civil war in the 1970s. These two statues form part of an ensemble representing the famous duel between Bhima and Duryodhana from the Mahabharata, all of which were brutally severed from their pedestals and found their way to various museums and private collections around the world. In its press release dated May 3, 2013 the Metropolitan Museum quoted its director Mr. Thomas P. Campbell, as saying: “The Museum is committed to applying rigorous provenance standards not only to new acquisitions, but to the study of works long in its collections in an ongoing effort to learn as much ...