Read more about the article More Than Half Exhibited Benin Objects In Switzerland Were Most Likely Looted By British Troops, Shows Research
Picture shows the Hip mask, from the Kingdom of Benin, undated. Eight Swiss museums are a part of the Benin Initiative Switzerland, to research the origin of their holdings from Kingdom of Benin. (Museum Rietberg, Rainer Wolfsberger/Newsflash)

More Than Half Exhibited Benin Objects In Switzerland Were Most Likely Looted By British Troops, Shows Research

Over half of the artefacts from the former African Kingdom of Benin that are exhibited in Switzerland ended up there after they were stolen by British soldiers in the 19th…

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Read more about the article Secrets Of Ancient Trade Routes Revealed
Image shows gold from the town of Poliochne, in Lemnos, Greece, undated photo. A total of 26 gold objects from the area were studied by the international team of researchers. (Ch. Schwall, OAI, OAW/Newsflash)

Secrets Of Ancient Trade Routes Revealed

Scientists are redrawing lines of ancient trade routes after discovering that 4,500-year-old gold in treasures found in both Troy and modern-day Iraq were mined in the same place. A new…

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Read more about the article Taiwan Museum Denies It Tried To Cover Up Breaking Of Ming And Qing Dynasty Objects
Picture shows one of the broken artefacts, undated. Three cultural relics in the National Palace Museum in Taipei, Taiwan, were damaged. (National Palace Museum/AsiaWire)

Taiwan Museum Denies It Tried To Cover Up Breaking Of Ming And Qing Dynasty Objects

Butter-fingered museum worker drops and breaks a priceless China plate by opening a box the wrong way. The video was released as the director of Taipei’s National Palace Museum faces…

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Read more about the article German City Returns Art Looted During British Colonial Times That Is Worth Over EUR 58 Million
Image shows a sculpture with Idah War scenery, undated photo. The city of Hamburg, Germany returned looted art stolen during British colonial times to Nigeria in September 2022. (MARKK/Newsflash)

German City Returns Art Looted During British Colonial Times That Is Worth Over EUR 58 Million

German authorities have returned a total of 179 art pieces to Nigeria after they were stolen during British colonial invasions in the former Kingdom of Benin. The decision to deliver…

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Read more about the article GBP 3.5 Million Looted Ancient Egyptian Artefacts Seized From Dealers
Photo shows one of the 16 Egyptian artifacts recovered from the United States of America, undated photo. (@tourismandantiq/Newsflash)

GBP 3.5 Million Looted Ancient Egyptian Artefacts Seized From Dealers

Looted Egyptian artefacts worth GBP 3.5 million have been returned after an international police probe into stolen treasures. Officials say 16 rare artefacts have been returned to their homeland after…

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Read more about the article Sliver Of Hope After New York Heirloom Hunter Tracks Down Owners Of Long-Lost Photo Album To Ukraine
The cover of the Ukrainian photo album that was obtained by Chelsey Brown, 29, from New York, in 2022, undated photo. Chelsey Brown spent weeks trying to track down the descendants of the people in the album. (@citychicdecor/Newsflash)

Sliver Of Hope After New York Heirloom Hunter Tracks Down Owners Of Long-Lost Photo Album To Ukraine

An American woman who finds lost heirlooms at flea markets in New York has tracked down a photo album's rightful owners to a family in war-torn Ukraine and given them…

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Read more about the article Story Of A War Hero Discovered Through 1940 Yearbook
Chelsey Brown, 29, who lives in New York City, poses in undated photo. She found a yearbook from 1940. (@chelseyibrown/Newsflash)

Story Of A War Hero Discovered Through 1940 Yearbook

This is the moment ‘Heirloom Hunter’ Chelsea Brown reveals the secret behind a war hero’s 1940 yearbook. Chelsea - a 29-year-old interior decorator - researches genealogy as a hobby, finding…

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Read more about the article Astonished Surgeons Find 158 Metal Objects In Woman’s Stomach
More than one hundred metal foreign bodies were removed from the stomach of a 25-year-old female patient in Van, Turkey. (Newsflash)

Astonished Surgeons Find 158 Metal Objects In Woman’s Stomach

This is the baffling haul of metal objects surgeons removed from a woman's stomach after she went to hospital complaining of abdominal pain. The 25-year-old - not named in local…

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Read more about the article Looted Benin Bronzes Returned By Germany
One of the first two artifacts that were returned to Nigeria representing a memorial head of a king dating back to the 18th century, III C. (Ethnological Museum of the Berlin State Museums, Prussian Cultural Heritage, Martin Franken/Newsflash)

Looted Benin Bronzes Returned By Germany

German authorities have returned the first of a treasure trove of bronzes looted from West Africa during the colonial era. The sculptures - known as the Benin Bronzes - were…

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