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Cultural Restitution
Nov 17, 2022
STATE OF PALESTINE
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STATE OF PALESTINE
Updated November 2022
Below is a schedule of successful restitutions made to Palestine, together with other restitution news. Entries are updated regularly.
November 2022
Palestine calls for return of the Shellal Mosaic, removed by Australian and New Zealand soldiers in 1917, which Israel claims should be returned to them
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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
