Government has established €600,000 three-year pilot project called NEXUD to combat illegal trade in antiquities

An exhibition opening at the Cincinnati Art Museum reveals how 14 major museums found themselves caught up in a “morally dubious” ­tour of Germany's art treasures after the Second World War

Bilateral accord to include projects to conserve, research, and store restituted items

Busby auction house confirms it has "negotiated a settlement" after Ethiopian officials requested the return of items stolen by British troops in a brutal 1868 battle

The 17th-century oba head was plucked from the Nigerian National Museum and given to Elizabeth II as a thank-you gift

The Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep will return this summer to the University of Oklahoma, which will seek a French partner for future exchanges

The funerary piece was illicitly excavated from the ancient city of Cyrene which is under threat from property developers

Aberdeen University is returning its looted 18th-century oba head to the Nigerian federal government

Around 160 institutions hold looted Benin artefacts, but how many are prepared to give them back? We asked museums in five countries for their position on restitution

With institutions across the globe rethinking their views on restitution, the African country’s focus is now on making a home for its heritage

Do your research and and check whether you unwittingly own stolen works, otherwise it could tarnish your reputation

South London museum has released new policies on restitution but says it will need to seek legal advice about the right to return artefacts

The decision on whether to return the painting, which hangs in Dusseldorf’s Kunstpalast, will be made by the city assembly in April

Senegalese art historian El Hadji Malick Ndiaye says discussions and decisions about the restitution of African artefacts cannot be dictated by the West

Plus, the newly discovered Van Gogh is sold and artist Rana Begum on Tess Jaray

The arts and crafts chain has amended its complaint regarding the ancient tablet, which it bought for at auction for $1.67m in 2014. It was seized by US authorities in 2019

In a unanimous opinion, it found the country cannot be sued for taking property from its own citizens, making it harder for the heirs of some Holocaust victims to recover art through the US justice system

The Dutch government adopts a committee’s “radical” guidelines, putting it at the forefront of European efforts to return colonial-era museum acquisitions

Government-funded image-recognition software will enable law enforcers to work with international organisations

Deputies rejected senators' proposal for a national council to advise the government on future restitution claims

A Paris court has ordered Léone-Noëlle Meyer and the University of Oklahoma to return to the negotiating table

The Magdeburg masterpiece may have been burned at the end of hostilities—but some believe it might have been looted and survive

The Eikosiphoinissa Manuscript 220 was among hundreds of objects taken from the Kosinitza Monastery by Bulgarian separatist troops in 1917

The object was seized on its way to an art fair last year and came from the same network that sold other looted antiquities to museums

The Jewish Digital Cultural Recovery Project will begin with a pilot scheme focusing on the Old Masters collection of Adolphe Schloss, which was seized by the Gestapo

The Antiquities Coalition releases a list of “infamous cases of cultural racketeering”

Congolese activist Emery Mwazulu Diyabanza, fined €1,000 earlier this month, will go to court again later today

Bénédicte Savoy—co-author of the Sarr-Savoy report that recommends France return its African artefacts—warns of "collective amnesia" over restitution debates that happened 40 years ago

The report calls for a new panel to advise the minister on repatriations and a new provenance research centre

News of the death of dealer and expert in South East Asian art raises strong reactions and unanswered questions