Cultural Restitution

October 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

Saudi Gazette




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July 3, 2025
“Would be nice to have a more frank discussion about how objects are collected for the Museum. Saying ‘Donated’ is not enough”
June 17, 2025
Last week, a delegation of Naga people signed a declaration that will lead to the return of 41 Naga ancestral remains currently held in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
May 24, 2025
Village leaders at San Benito Poité in southern Belize, formerly British Honduras, are claiming that an important collection of artefacts removed from the ancient city of Pusilha is not the lawful property of the British Museum