Should museums return antiquities to their countries of origin? Some say no
New fronts have opened up in the war of cultural restitution, raising complex ethical and legal questions as some argue ...
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A guide to Africa's 'looted treasures'
Ethiopia lodged a claim in 2007 for the return of the antiquities ... 19th Century British imperialist Cecil Rhodes, whose home in the South African city of Cape Town is now a museum.
Roman lamps from North Africa
Three Roman lamps found on the site of the cemetery of Djemal, south of Sousse in Tunisia in North Africa with a written ...
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Most Britons support permanent British Museum exhibit on transatlantic slave trade, poll finds
“The Museum must acknowledge Britain’s role in the trade in enslaved African people in order to serve the British public, who deserve to understand their own history,” the letter continue ...
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The Long History of the "Elsewhere Museum"
Books & the Arts / Can the ethnographic museum be reinvented? Farah Abdessamad In 1931, Paris hosted a spectacular event called the International Colonial Exhibition. Almost 8 million people visited ...
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From Elgin Marbles to Moai heads: What artefacts have the British Museum been urged to return?
The British Museum has regularly faced criticism in recent decades over its right to hold onto the treasures of antiquity it houses ... and plaques from the West African Kingdom of Benin dating ...
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Over 200 antiquities to be repatriated from US
One is currently housed in the British Museum and the other in the Cyprus Museum. The Antiquities Department is packing the artefacts and will bring them back to Cyprus over the next few days ...
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Iran may cut British Museum ties in antiquity row
Iran’s Cultural Heritage Organisation said in October it had set a two-month deadline for the British Museum to allow the public display in Iran of the so-called Cyrus Cylinder, linked to the ...