Berlin's museum authority announced this week that it was ready to return hundreds of human skulls from the former colony of German East Africa, after studying the remains to establish to which present-day countries they belong.
To complete the process, please follow the instructions in the email we just sent you.They were taken over by the Museum of Prehistory and Early History from Berlin's Charité hospital in 2011.
Improper storage had led to some of the skulls becoming damaged or mouldy, according to the museum's curator, Bernard Heeb, who's managing the project to research their provenance.:"Today, all of the skulls are stored with the dignity they deserve."The human remains were then examined and inventoried in a pilot project that Heeb said he hoped would"serve as a model for a general reassessment of colonial-era collections, not just the collection in Berlin".
In recent years, pressure has grown to return human remains and artefacts that were pillaged by European colonialists., which were stolen by British colonial troops before ending up in museums across Europe and the United States. Germany started returning its collection to Nigeria late last year following an agreement between Berlin and Abuja.
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