just last summer, king felipe of belgium returned a rare mask to the democratic republic of congo, whichad actually been on display in this museum for the last 70 years. you may have seen these items in a museum or heard about the benin bronzes in the media. in the past year, dozens of museums across the west have either agreed to or are in the process of returning them back to nigeria. it's estimated around 10,000 pieces were taken by the british during a punitive expedition to benin in 1897. the bronzes were then sold to institutions around the world. now there's no law in the uk which forces museums or other places to return stolen artefacts, but some institutions are doing it independently. like jesus college cambridge. they were the first institution in the world to return a benin bronze in 2021 and soon cambridge university's museum of archaeology and anthropology will follow suit. we've identified 116 objects that were taken during the punitive expedition of 1897, and those are the objects that we will be transferring ownership of. i think it's impossible to overstate just how sev

just last summer, king felipe of belgium returned a rare mask to the democratic republic of congo, whichs estimated around 10,000 pieces were taken by the british during a punitive expedition to benin in 1897. the bronzes were then sold to institutions around the world. now there's no law in the uk which forces museums or other places to return stolen artefacts. but some institutions are doing it independently, like jesus college, cambridge. they were the first institution in the world to return a benin bronze in 2021. and soon cambridge university's museum of archaeology and anthropology will follow suit. we've identified 116 objects that were taken during the punitive expedition of 1897. and those are the objects that we will be transferring ownership of. i think it's impossible to overstate just how severe an act of vandalism and cultural violence this was. the heads that we see before us here, were several of the objects that graced ancestral altars throughout the palace and the purpose of those altars was very much to maintain the lineage, to maintain the kingdom. the plaques that h

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