Cultural Restitution
December 1, 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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Six Native American skulls, acquired to advance the pseudoscience of phrenology, have been returned by the University of Edinburgh to the Muscogee Nation, a self-governed Native American Tribal Nation