A stark warning from this recent AFP article: “As tomb raiders plunder Iron Age treasures — beads, gold ornaments and even the bones from burial mounds — archaeologists warn that Cambodia’s rich pre-Angkorian heritage will be completely lost within three years.”
South eastern Cambodia is still pretty much off the tourist trail, with Angkor Wat located in the North West – but there’s plenty of priceless ancient treasures scattered through the rest of the country, and Cambodia’s grinding poverty makes the sale and smuggling of those Angkorian remains discovered by farmers easy prey for unscrupulous antiques traders. “I don’t know anything about the concerns that we are destroying historic sites. We are poor and we have no food, so we come here to dig and make money to buy rice,” 31 year old Meth Ry explains. Read the full article at South Asian Women’s Forum
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