The items were taken in the late 19th century from what was then called the Dutch East Indies. Indonesia had been trying to ...

The Dutch Ministry of Culture also announced on Wednesday about returning approximately 28,000 other fossils to Indonesia.

A fossil skull of an ancient human (homo erectus) at the Indonesian exhibition, The Oldest Civilization on Earth 130 Years After Pithecanthropus Erectus, at the National Museum, Jakarta, December 20, ...

The Netherlands announced on Friday that it will give back a collection of thousands of fossils to Indonesia. The collection is made up of over 28,000 fossils, including some of the so-called "Java ...

JAKARTA : Indonesia has asked former colonial ruler the Netherlands to return eight historical artefacts from its museums, including bones of the Java Man, the first known fossils of the Homo erectus ...

Indonesia has asked the Netherlands to hand back at least eight art pieces and natural history collections that were acquired during the colonial era, including the remains of a landmark hominid known ...

A request by the Indonesian government for the return of artifacts not only includes art but also a number of fossils, including the Java man skull, Trouw reported on Tuesday. The list was sent to ...

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The first large excavation of ancient human remains in Indonesia, in the 1890s, were done with great care – according to an analysis of unpublished documents from the dig. The original excavations ...