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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February 14, 2026
This week’s announcement that Cambridge University has transferred legal ownership of its collection of 116 Benin artefacts to Nigeria could be hugely significant
February 4, 2026
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
January 30, 2026
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