Pakistan's Stolen Cultural Heritage
At the behest of UNESCO, the fine arts auction house Christie’s has halted a planned auction this month of a fasting Buddha, a nearly 2,000-year-old statue from the Gandhara civilisation, which was believed to have been stolen from Pakistan and sold to a private collector in Germany in the 1980s.
The grey schist figure of the emaciated Siddhartha, or ‘Fa…
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