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Delegates from the Yahgan and Kawéskar communities visited London last month to study the artifacts for the first time.

By studying the ratio of metals in coins from ancient China's Bronze Age, researchers may have cracked formulas that described mysterious components called Jin and Xi and complicated our view of the era's metal manufacturing.

Horniman museum is first government-funded institution to hand back artefacts looted by British forces in 1897

Changing public attitudes have made issues of repatriation and decolonisation harder to ignore

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Deputy director Jonathan Williams said they want to ‘change the temperature of the debate’ over the ancient statues and friezes.

In southwest Nigeria, West Africa's only natural history museum serves as a world class facility for conservation of natural resources. Built in 1973 as part of the zoology department at Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria's Natural History Museum was left abandoned for over 30 years before it was renovated and reopened…

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