The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will return 14 artifacts stolen from Cambodia, the Cambodian Ministry of Culture and Art said in a statement to the media on Monday.

According to the announcement issued by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the total number of artifacts returned this time is 16, of which 14 belong to Cambodia and two belong to Thailand. The artifacts include a 10th-century statue of the goddess Umma, known to Cambodians as the "soul of our ancestors," originally housed in the temple of Koko, Cambodia, but looted after the temple was destroyed by French explorers and other forces starting in the 19th century and then moved to the Metropolitan Museum.