April 7, 2022
'Significant moment' as council agrees Scotland's largest repatriation of looted antiquities
Author: Kirsteen Paterson
Benin bronzes, Indian artefacts and Lakota treasures will be handed over
Councillors are to return looted artefacts from around the world in Scotland's "largest ever" repatriation of antiquities.
Items taken from the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890 are amongst those set to be handed over from Glasgow's museum collection.
The decision will also mark the first repatriation of artefacts to India from any UK museum service, according to Councillor David McDonald, the outgoing depute leader of the loca...