Stolen gods: Nepal seeks to bring home lost treasures

Now a video she posted on social media has made the artefact one of the latest targets for heritage activists sleuthing online to try to bring home some of the thousands of items whisked out over decades from the Himalayan country.

Her Kathmandu temple is only open to the public one day a year, but officials removed the work for safekeeping in the 1970s -- after which it disappeared."I started to weep in front of it," she said. "I started to just pray normally like I would do in temple.Traces of vermilion pigment used in Hindu worship rituals are still visible on its surface, and Baniya's Twitter video prompted Nepali authorities to contact the museum to seek its return.

Many, though, are bereft of their centuries-old sculptures, paintings, ornamental windows and even doors, stolen -- sometimes with the assistance of corrupt officials -- after the country opened up to the outside world in the 1950s to feed art markets in the United States, Europe and elsewhere. The auction was first spotted by Lost Art of Nepal, an anonymously-run Facebook page that has posted about hundreds of historical and religious objects, flagging their new locations from auction houses to European or American museums.

With heritage repatriation a growing issue for museums around the world -- the ancient Greek Elgin Marbles and the Benin Bronzes from Nigeria are probably the best-known controversies -- the occasional Nepali recovery is building into a trickle. This month it will be reinstalled in its original temple location, from where it disappeared in 1984.

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