The National Museum announced on July 23 that a bas-relief sculpture of Buddha currently preserved at the National Museum will be returned to its place of origin at the Banteay Chhmar Temple in Banteay Meanchey province at the end of July.

The museum said that the bas-relief was returned to Cambodia over 20 years ago after it had been confiscated in Thailand in 2000.

“This beautiful bas-relief sculpture of Buddha made in the 13th century will be returned back to the Banteay Chhmar Temple at the end of this month. Our compatriots in Phnom Penh can come to see it in the capital this week until July 28,” the National Museum said on Facebook.