Two locks of hair belonging to widely revered Ethiopian Emperor Tewodros II will be repatriated after a request from Addis Ababa, the National Army Museum in the UK announced Monday, as more African countries seek to reclaim heritage they say was taken decades, even centuries, ago An outcry erupted last year among some Ethiopians over an exhibit […]
In its on April the 3rd , The Guardian wrote an interesting article that highlights several things, most critically to me is the sense of impunity and arrogance. The article headline is ‘Looted Ethiopian treasure in U.K Could be return on loan.’ So what it saying…yes precisely the headline says that treasure looted by Britain […]
In early April an exhibition called “Maqdala 1868” opened at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. It’s comprised of treasures looted from Ethiopia, and so contributes to the ongoing controversy and debate about treasure ownership. In the case of Ethiopia, what is important in this controversy is the fact that the question of ownership is linked to […]
The National Army Museum has quietly removed from display a 19th-century looted braid of hair which the Ethiopian government has requested back as a national treasure. It came from the head of the Emperor Tewodros II, who killed himself at the end of the British invasion of Ethiopia in 1868 rather than being taken, prisoner. He shot […]
The necklace was given to the institute by the descendants of Robert Napier, one of the most famous British generals of the imperial era, who in 1868 led an expedition to release British hostages being held in then Abyssinia by Emperor Tewodros. After defeating the emperor’s forces and ransacking his mountaintop fortress at Maqdala, the […]
DANIEL TRILLING, The Atlantic LONDON—In a storeroom of the British Museum here sits a collection of 11 wood and stone tablets that nobody is allowed to see. They are Christian plaques, or tabots, that represent the Ark of the Covenant, and they belong—though belong in this case is a contested term—to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, which believes only […]
The V&A is to stage an exhibition of looted treasures from Ethiopia, reviving a diplomatic row over a controversial episode in British military history. The royal and religious artefacts were plundered during the Battle of Maqdala in 1868, when a British expeditionary force laid siege to the mountain fortress of Emperor Tewodros II in what […]
The Ethiopian government appears to be hardening its position and is now pressing for full restitution of artifacts seized by the British at the battle of Maqdala in 1868—not long-term loans. At the opening of the Victoria and Albert Museum’s (V&A) display on 5 April its director, Tristram Hunt made a clear commitment to return Maqdala objects […]
A group of Ethiopian treasures, now on special display at the Victoria and Albert Museum, have rekindled an old debate about whether such artefacts should be returned to their country of origin. Ethiopia would like them back. The V&A’s director, Tristram Hunt, has suggested a long-term loan. The Ethiopian government has welcomed Hunt’s offer. And there, […]
For 150 years, Ethiopians have been asking when Prince Alemayehu will come home. The orphan prince, a descendant of Solomon, was taken to England – some say “stolen” – after British soldiers looted his father’s imperial citadel following the Battle of Maqdala in 1868. He died at the age of 18, after an unhappy childhood, […]
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