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Which artefacts have the British Museum been urged to return?

From the archive (1993): Where is the looted Kwer'ata Re'esu, the most revered icon of the Ethiopian empire?

As a touring exhibition, African Zion The Sacred Art Of Ethiopia, opened in the United States in 1993, a scholar of Ethiopian history asked what had become of the country's most important painting of all

From the archive (1998): How The Art Newspaper tracked down Ethiopia's greatest icon after its looting by a British agent in 1868

The Kwer'ata Re'esu was kept in a bank vault in Portugal, where our correspondent examined it and took colour photographs in 1998

UK returns a lock of Prince Alemayehu's hair to Ethiopia 140 years after he was kidnapped | International

The son of Emperor Tewodros II was captured in 1868 at the age of seven by a British expedition. The royal house has so far refused to return his remains, which lie in Windsor Castle

A piece of a 19th-century Ethiopian prince is going home