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After three centuries in a Dutch archive, ancient copper plates documenting India's ocean-spanning Chola Empire are finally home. Their inscriptions reveal a civilization so confident it supported Buddhist monasteries built by foreign rulers.
Germany is launching a national coordination council to oversee the return of artworks, artifacts, and human remains taken during colonial times. The move builds on years of work already underway to reunite African nations with their stolen cultural heritage.
Cambridge University is returning around 100 stolen artifacts to Nigeria, including precious bronze sculptures and royal commemorative pieces looted in 1897. The move restores cultural treasures seized during a colonial military raid on Benin City.