Cultural Restitution

February 4, 2021
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Updated September 2023


Below is a schedule of successful restitutions made by Egypt, together with other Egyptian restitution news.  Entries are updated regularly


September 2023

Zahi Hawass  has announced plans to convene a further international meeting for countries affected by the smuggling of antiquities, adding the current Minister of Antiquities is ready to take action

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September 2023

Egypt's Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Mostafa Waziri, confirmed that communications with the British Museum over the return of stolen artefacts is continuing

Egypt Independent


October 2022

More than 2,500 archaeologists sign a petition calling the British Museum to return the Rosetta Stone to Egypt

ARTnews


August 2022

Dr Zahi Hawass announces a fresh initiative to return the Rosetta Stone in the British Museum to Egypt

Thenationalnews.com


February 2021

Former Italian honorary consul in Luxor, now living in Rome, sentenced in absentia to a 15-year Egyptian jail sentence in January 2021 for smuggling antiquities

Cultural Property News




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Imperial Gold Hairpin to return to Ethiopia

December 5, 2025
A rare and important 19th century gold hairpin once owned by Empress Tiruwork, wife of the Abyssinian Emperor Tewodros II, will be returning to Ethiopia following negotiations by the Royal Ethiopian Trust with the Rome auction house Bertolami Fine Art

Protests in favour of a Benin Royal Museum frustrate ambitions of Nigeria’s Museum of West African Art

November 25, 2025
In 2022 several western collections made a decision to transfer ownership of their Benin Bronzes to Nigeria. Reassured by progress on the construction of a major new facility in Benin City, they understood their Benin artefacts would be exhibited in a new museum to be called the Edo Museum of West African Art

Why the Rosetta Stone will not be returning to Egypt ... just yet

November 11, 2025
After years of delay and political distraction, the official opening of the new Grand Egyptian Museum finally took place in the shadow of the pyramids on the evening of November 1st attended by monarchs, world leaders, heads of state and government