The Bowers Museum in Santa Anna, California, has recently returned 554 stolen artifacts from Ban Chiang, an archaeological site in Thailand, to its home country. This is the one of the most significant return of plundered cultural treasure in recent history, and one that occurred only after a decade-long investigation. Among the artifacts are pieces of pottery, bronze ornaments and instruments, beads, stone instruments and axes, all of which are products of a sophisticated civilization that was one of Southeast Asia’s earliest.
This particular event is only one of an ongoing effort to return stolen artifacts back to their original homeland, with nearly 7,000 items having been returned to around 30 countries in the past seven years. They are now being housed in the Kanjanapisek National Museum in Pathum Thani.
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