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Cultural Restitution
Dec 01, 2019
GUATEMALA
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Guatemala
Updated November 2019
Below is a schedule of successful restitutions to Guatemala. Entries are updated regularly.
November 2017
18 pre-Columbian archaeological pieces, illegally stolen from Guatemala in the 1960s and located in Germany, Italy and Switzerland, are repatriated
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A Roman bronze head from a statue of a young man, acquired by the Getty Museum in Los Angeles in 1971, is returning to Turkey after evidence emerged it was excavated illegally
An official from the Ethiopian Orthodox Church has confirmed the identity of an object held at National Museums Scotland (NMS) as a sacred Ethiopian Tabot
The British Museum has shown itself adept at refusing to provide information to questions they’d prefer not to answer. We hope our initiative to escalate concerns about the Museum’s collection of Ethiopian Tabots to the Information Commissioner’s Office will encourage greater transparency
