{"id":376442,"date":"2025-08-27T01:59:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T01:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/376442\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T01:59:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T01:59:15","slug":"france-repatriates-three-colonial-era-skulls-to-madagascar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/376442\/","title":{"rendered":"France repatriates three colonial-era skulls to Madagascar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">France has returned three colonial-era skulls held in a Paris museum to Madagascar, 128 years after they were taken to France, including one believed to be that of a Malagasy king killed by French troops.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">The skull, presumed to be that of King Toera and two others from the Sakalava ethnic group, were formally handed over at a ceremony held at the French Culture Ministry on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">France has sought to confront its colonial past by returning artefacts and human remains from its museums to their countries of origin. <\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">French Culture Minister Rachida Dati described the return of the skulls that had been stored at the Museum of National History in Paris as a &#8220;historic event&#8221; between France and Madagascar.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">&#8220;This ceremony also symbolises the completion of a historical, scientific, and memorial process between our two nations,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France has returned three colonial-era skulls held in a Paris museum to Madagascar, 128 years after they were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-376442","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115098259595059005","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}