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Cultural Restitution
Oct 12, 2020
SAUDI ARABIA
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Saudi Arabia
Updated October 2020
Below is a schedule of restitutions made by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and/or news relating to restitutions.
Entries are updated regularly
November 2019
250 stolen documents, smuggled into Saudi Arabia, have been returned to Iraq's House of Books and Documents
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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
