UK museums to loan looted gold artifacts to Ghana ...Middle East

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — The United Kingdom will send back gold and silver artifacts looted from Ghana in the 19th century after a long-term loan agreement was struck. Both the British Museum and the V&A will send items related to the Asante royal court to Ghana, where they will be displayed at the Manhyia Palace Museum in Kumasi, according to a press release from the UK museums Thursday. Many of the items, which include 13 pieces of Asante royal regalia, were looted during the Anglo-Asante wars, while some were part of an indemnity payment that the British forcibly extracted from the Asantehene, or Asante king. Others were sold at auction, entering private collections and museums wor

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