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

The two works, given to the museum in the 1990s, were looted from temples in Kathmandu according to recent internal provenance research

The pole was stolen in 1929 and, if returned, would be only the second totem pole to be repatriated to a First Nation by a European institution

The National Park Service has awarded grants totaling $2.1m to 20 museums and nine tribes

Officials will loan the ancient sculptures only if they are returned to London

Charity Commission could veto the decision to repatriate objects from Ashmolean Museum and Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Francis delivered a speech in Maskwacis as part of a week-long visit to apologise for the role of the Catholic church in the cultural genocide of Indigenous communities

Project by Oxford’s Institute for Digital Archaeology fuels debate about restitution of controversial sculptures

Clamour grows for reunification as Acropolis Museum in Athens marks 13th anniversary

The $50m centre is scheduled to open in 2025 and showcase works on long-term loan from the National Museum of the American Indian