Tag: France
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Proposed Restitution Law in France Advances in National Assembly
In what was described as “a decisive step in the long road to the restitution of property looted in Africa during the colonial era,” on Wednesday the French National Assembly’s Cultural Affairs Committee approved a proposed bill that wasunanimously passed by the Senate’s Cultural Affairs Committee in January, setting up a plenary session debate on read more
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Missing Page of Archimedes Manuscript Found in France, Shedding Light on Century-Long Mystery
A page missing from The Archimedes Palimpsest, the oldest extant copy of writings by the ancient Greek mathematician, was rediscovered at the Museum of Fine Arts in Blois, France. One side of the page, which had been missing for 120 years, contains part of Archimedes’s treatise On the Sphere and the Cylinder, while the other read more
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France Returns Looted ‘Talking Drum’ to the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire
In a ceremony held on Friday at the Musée Quai Branly in Paris, France officially returned a drum known as the “talking drum” or Djidji Ayôkwé, to the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire. The news was reported by French newspaper Le Monde. The ten-foot-long, 940-pound drum has a single-piece soundbox slit in half longitudinally. Extending out read more
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