The Cannon of Kandy, decorated with gold, silver and rubies from Sri Lanka, on display at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on July 6th, 2023. The cannon is among the items being returned. Photograph: Freek van den Bergh/ANP/AFP The Netherlands is handing back hundreds of valuable artefacts it removed from Indonesia and Sri Lanka during the colonial period, including a cache of precious stones, gold and silver jewellery looted by Dutch troops from a Balinese royal palace, known as the “Lombok treasure”. The 484 objects are the first the Netherlands is restituting to its former Asian colonies after a...
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