KATHMANDU: London Police have handed over two cultural artifacts of Nepal to Gyan Chandra Acharya, Ambassador of Nepal to the United Kingdom.
Detective Superintendent John Roch from the Metropolitan Police of London handed over artifacts of Nepal to Ambassador Acharya to the United Kingdom.
The artifacts, which will be returned to Nepal, include a carved wooden Torana from the 16th Century and a carved stone sculpture of kneeling devotees in the Namaskar Mudra from the 18th Century.
The carved wooden Torana was lost from the Kumari Baha at Hanumandhoka Durbar Square in Kathmandu.
Likewise, the sculpture of the Manjushri Temple, Kathmandu, was lost in the 1980s.
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