The restoration was complicated by jurisdictional battles among local, provincial and national heritage officials, Mr. Linden said.
Last year, cultural heritage officials warned that urban development had destroyed tens of thousands of historic sites in the past three decades.
As racetracks became more professional in the 1920's and 30's and shook off their dusty agricultural heritage, officials declared war on touts, barring them from the grounds.
Since the National Gallery of Art in London has its share of Michelangelos, as do the museums at Oxford and Cambridge, and since the National Galleries of Scotland cannot afford it, it will no longer pose a question to heritage officials who might otherwise have stopped it from leaving Britain, saying it was a national treasure.
Keat Bunthan, a senior heritage police official in north-western Siem Reap province, said officers were now questioning the women.
Adam Wilkinson, director of Edinburgh World Heritage, the official guardian of its world heritage site, said a decision to build the Hoskins hotel would have huge repercussions.
"The making of kimchi … is a culture that continues to be shared by virtually all Koreans and is a significant part of their lives," Park Hei-woong, a cultural heritage administration official, said when the Unesco status was announced at the end of last year, adding that kimchi-making maintained the "cohesiveness of Korean communities … and is an essential part of the Korean cultural identity".
"We call on the American side to severely punish the person who committed this destruction and theft of mankind's cultural heritage," an official with the center told the state-affiliated Beijing Youth Daily.
Saudi Arabia may be proud of some parts of their archeological heritage: the officials from King Abdulaziz public library reminded me of another cultural initiative making its way through Europe – Roads of Arabia, a travelling exhibition now on display at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin.
"After spending last week fending off questions about Trump's comments on a federal judge's 'Mexican heritage,' GOP officials can now look forward to a week of questions about Trump's innuendo about Obama," NBC News's Benjy Sarlin and Katy Tur wrote on Monday afternoon.
