The museum has responded to accusations that its collection includes looted artefacts by creating its largest research arm to date

The repatriation comes after a report found more than 1,000 works linked to suspected or convicted traffickers in the museum’s collection

After a repatriation ceremony last November, members of Indigenous communities debate what to do with objects long held at the Founders Museum

In all, 83 artefacts scheduled to be sold in Paris next week are protected under Mexican law, authorities say

The small Dutch Carribean island has recovered bone fragments and artefacts uncovered in a Dutch archaeological dig more than 30 years ago

The Royal Ontario Museum returned an ornate saddlebag and ceramic pipe to descendants of Poundmaker

The artefacts will go on view at the National Museum of Asian Art, rather than be returned to Yemen, due to the ongoing humanitarian crisis there

The repatriated artefacts were looted by an international network of “high-profile antiquities traffickers and smugglers, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s office

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The 60 objects included some that had been on display at the Metropolitan Museum and several that had been bought by billionaire collector Michael Steinhardt

The US government has returned a looted ivory spoon in the first repatriation exchange between the two countries

A trafficked coffin that may have belonged to an ancient priest has been returned

New and refurbished museums open in Antwerp, Los Angeles and Sydney as Italian archaeologists make the "discovery of a generation" in a hilltop town in Tuscany

The artefacts, cylinder and stamp seals dating back thousands of years, were seized after a US collector tried to sell one in an online auction

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In all, 223 pre-Hispanic objects have been repatriated to Mexico by the Dutch government, largely through the power of social media

If a deal is finalised, the contested sculptures are expected to be returned to Greece in early 2023, and will be displayed at the Acropolis Museum in Athens

The museum will transfer the totem pole to the Nisga’a Nation of British Columbia

Country’s museums association says institutions must involve Indigenous people in “every element” of their work

The Founders Museum, a small institution housed in a library, returned a variety of tribal objects to their rightful owners in South Dakota

Authorities received an anonymous tip regarding an object listed for sale on the auction house’s website and described as a Mescalero Apache scalp

The objects associated with Kapoor, along with another five pieces returned to Pakistan, were cumulatively valued at $3.4m

American institutions have catalogued 208,698 entries since the law went into effect in 1990—but less than half of those holdings have been repatriated

The sandstone vishnu statue was stolen from a seventh-century temple and smuggled to Manhattan in 1995, when it was sold to a private collector

Professor Elizabeth Weiss has filed a lawsuit against San José State University claiming she was disciplined for expressing her view that repatriation favours religion over science

The National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African Art and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum marked the return of the sculptures with a ceremony in Washington, DC

Research carried out in 2019 helped identify the remains as Preben Holger Larsen, a 26-year-old artist and member of the Danish resistance

The mosaic, which features a portrait of Medusa and had been cut into 16 pieces, was returned to Rome by the FBI’s Art Crime Team

The former Egyptian antiquities minister leans into the current restitution conversation, calling again for the return of three prized antiquities from European museums