The Art Institute of Chicago is returning a 12th-century sculpture to Nepal after learning that it had been stolen. Officials ...

The museum’s researchers collaborated with the government of Nepal to determine the sculpture had been stolen from the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal.

The sculpture, which is named "Buddha Sheltered ... four Alsdorf pieces at the Art Institute for which there’s evidence that they may have been looted from Nepal and exported illegally.

The Art Institute of Chicago announced on Monday that it is returning a 12th-century sculpture titled "Buddha Sheltered by the Serpent King Muchalinda" to Nepal after new research found that the ...

The anonymous heritage advocacy initiative Lost Arts of Nepal identified the standing Buddha statue from a (left) photo taken during a 1968 Danish expedition and (right) close-up published in Lain ...

The Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) this week announced the return of Buddha Sheltered by the Serpent King Muchalinda to Nepal ...

The institute then shared its findings with Embassy of Nepal in Washington ... cave around the Buddha, permitting him to remain in deep mediation,” according to the Art Institute.

The Buddha statue was first identified by the online heritage activist group Lost Arts of Nepal in 2021 as matching a statue stolen from Guita Tole in Patan, Kathmandu. The sacred statue is part ...

The Art Institute of Chicago announced Monday that it is returning a 12th-century sculpture to Nepal. The museum said it learned that the sculpture, "Buddha Sheltered by the Serpent King ...

On 3 March, the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) announced the initiation of a voluntary repatriation to Nepal. The 12th-century artefact in question, a “significant sculpture” dubbed Buddha ...