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Cultural Restitution
Oct 12, 2020
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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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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
