Cultural Restitution
October 12, 2020
JORDAN
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Jordan
Updated October 2020
Below is a schedule of restitutions made by the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and/or news relating to restitutions.
Entries are updated regularly
February 2019
1,300 artefacts looted from the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad are returned to Iraq by Jordan
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This week’s announcement that Cambridge University has transferred legal ownership of its collection of 116 Benin artefacts to Nigeria could be hugely significant
Britain’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport has confirmed it will review the exclusion it imposed on national collections that prevents them from returning cultural objects on moral grounds
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