Family of Six Dead in Kampong Chhnang House Fire (UPDATE: Murder Most Foul)
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Re: Family of Six Dead in Kampong Chhnang House Fire (UPDATE: Murder Most Foul)
He looks like he's still thinking about that artefact.
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Unless I'm missing something it doesn't look like fine work and is likely worth very little. More Kathmandu 1975 than Khmer Empire 1300 or whatever. Half the fucking thing is so corroded it's gone smooth.Ghostwriter wrote: ↑Fri May 14, 2021 2:04 am He looks like he's still thinking about that artefact.
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Re: Family of Six Dead in Kampong Chhnang House Fire (UPDATE: Murder Most Foul)
The item is corroded because when the man set fire to the house, he forgot to take his precious belonging with him. But it was the first thing he looked for when he returned to the burnt-out house, according to the KT:John Bingham wrote: ↑Fri May 14, 2021 3:55 amUnless I'm missing something it doesn't look like fine work and is likely worth very little. More Kathmandu 1975 than Khmer Empire 1300 or whatever. Half the fucking thing is so corroded it's gone smooth.Ghostwriter wrote: ↑Fri May 14, 2021 2:04 am He looks like he's still thinking about that artefact.
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From: https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50857012/a ... -on-may-9/Even more interesting from the incident is that an artefact of a diety’s leg weighing more than 1.6 kilogrammes made of metal, copper, iron and brass was found among the charred bodies and debris.
Kampong Chhnang culture and fine arts department director Sok Thuok said the artefact has been given to them yesterday for safe keeping.
He added the artefact was built in the post-Angkorian style after the 18th century and it has cultural history value.
Relating the story of the artefact, he said, that Sareth had found the deity’s leg in a field where he was removing rubbles to build a house.
An said Sareth decided to keep his find which he used when he turned a fortune teller and started treating people for some diseases.
“Someone offered him a substantial amount of money for the artefact and Sareth was interested to sell to pay off his microfinance debt which was more than $20,000. But, his wife refused to sell and this became a long-standing argument between them,” he added.
On May 10 morning when Sareth returned to the site where the charred bodies laid, An said, Sareth was seen looking for the artefact.
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Re: Family of Six Dead in Kampong Chhnang House Fire (UPDATE: Murder Most Foul)
This is what I was talking about in a post a long time ago.
That artefact is made of a material that Khmer believe to be something called "samrut" which translates to "bronze" but it is considered an almost magical material and MOST Khmer people, even well educated ones, strongly believe to exist and that it is worth much more than it's weight in gold.
It is actually a long running elaborate scam but so many belive in it that it.
That artefact is made of a material that Khmer believe to be something called "samrut" which translates to "bronze" but it is considered an almost magical material and MOST Khmer people, even well educated ones, strongly believe to exist and that it is worth much more than it's weight in gold.
It is actually a long running elaborate scam but so many belive in it that it.
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