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The Netherlands returned a Benin artefact to Oba Ewuare II at his palace in Benin City on 20 October, 129 years after the 1897 invasion — on the exact day he marked ten years on the throne.
National Museums Scotland unveiled a facial reconstruction on 20 October 2026 of a man who died at Inveresk between AD 140 and 165 — born in southern Britain, broken-nosed, his right arm ruined, his teeth worn from gripping objects. His skull goes on display 14 November, beside a likeness his friends, curators say, would have recognised.
Two agreements signed on 9 October 2026 cover 30,190 items from the Eugène Dubois Collection — including Homo erectus material and 427 ancestral remains — plus 20 colonial-era cultural objects, from the Banjarmasin Diamond to a Quran manuscript linked to Teuku Umar.
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