Artefacts looted by British troops from Ethiopia in 1868 have been returned to the Ethiopian embassy in London.
They include an imperial shield, a Bible and crosses, the embassy said.
The Scheherazade Foundation purchased the items through a UK-based auction house and private dealers, before handing them over to the embassy.
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The embassy will arrange for them to be returned to Ethiopia.
It would be recalled that a Bible was in June this year withdrawn from auction after the Ethiopian Embassy said it had been looted by British forces in the 19th century.
The vellum-bound Bible had been among the items for auction at Busby Auctioneers and Valuers in Dorset, but the auction house agreed to remove the Bible after the embassy said it was among the artefacts taken by the British after the 1868 Battle of Magdala.
The embassy told Busby that the sale of the items was “unethical” and represented a continued “cycle of dispossession perpetrated by those who would seek to benefit from the spoils of war.”
