Bernhard Heeb News Today

Skulls housed in a German hospitals collection for a century were stolen from Africa during the colonial period. They have now been genetically matched with living relatives.

After human remains taken from Africa were stored in Berlin for over a century, living descendants have been identified for the first time. Growing calls to repatriate the remains could soon be answered.

Mnyaka Sururu Mboro is looking for the skull of a rebel Tanzanian chief who was executed by German colonisers.

Earlier this month, a Hawaiian delegation retrieved 58 sets of ancestral remains from five European museums