Cultural Property Repatriation News and Issues

A blog about the return to the 'source country' of cultural property removed before the implementation of the 1970 UNESCO Convention, treated separately from the issue of ongoing looting and theft.

Saturday, November 30, 2024

Macron’s promise of African heritage returns faces setbacks

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Seven years on from Emmanuel Macron’s pledge to return Africa’s heritage, frustration grows about the lack of progress and a crucial coloni...
Saturday, July 20, 2024

Delusion of the Director

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks a truly bizarre claim from the new @britishmuseum Nicholas Cullinan on @BBCr4today this morning that th...
Saturday, December 2, 2023

Trophy Antiquities Scraps Bolster Scandinavian National Self-Worth

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The National Museum of Denmark, after “careful consideration”, has refused requests from the Acropolis Museum in Athens to return three frag...
Wednesday, November 23, 2022

France's Words, and France's Actions on African Cultural Property Restitution

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In 2017, with much fanfare, at the dawn of his first term, French President Emmanuel Macron made a commitment to restitution of African heri...
Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Germany Hands Over Some Looted Artefacts To Namibia

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Germany Hands Over Looted Artefacts To Namibia, But On loan (Channels Television May 30, 2022). Namibia on Monday took delivery of 23 a...
Friday, October 15, 2021

Berlin Breakthrough on Benin Bronzes

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  Germany and Nigeria have signed an agreement setting out a timetable for the restitution of artefacts looted from the royal palace of Ben...
Tuesday, July 6, 2021

Africa Update Honours Indefatigable Ghanaian scholar-activist, Dr. Kwame Opoku

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  Africa Update  Vol. XXVIII. Issue 3. Summer 2021 Editorial This issue of  Africa Update  is a tribute to the indefatigable Ghanaian sc...
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Paul Barford
British archaeologist living and working in Warsaw, Poland. Since the early 1990s (or even longer) a primary interest has been research on artefact hunting and collecting and the market in portable antiquities in the international context and their effect on the archaeological record.
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