The first paper I turned to - "Repatriation from Scottish Museums: A Short Report" by @aberdeenuni's Neil Curtis and @hunteriandir Steph Scholten - stirred memories of past defeats https://www.ejournals.eu/SAACLR/2022/2-2022/art/23356/ @EdUniLibraries #AFROMET #magdala #maqdala #ethiopia

RT @VardasGeorge
@lootplunder @britishmuseum Sir David Wilson, former director of #BritishMuseum in his 2003 book British Museum: A History, conceded that the plunder of #Maqdala treasures was "one of the less glorious episodes in its history". Ironic that these objects of colonial greed and plunder are not even on display.

A big big deal. Thanks for the link @iyoba4u. Does anyone know where this is in Addis? Would be very grateful if anyone could also get a closeup of the labels.
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RT @PressEthio
Ethiopia Heritage Authority (EHA) launched a temporary exhibition to display returned artifacts looted during the Battle of #Maqdala in 1868 at different times. https://press.et/herald/?p=70898
https://twitter.com/PressEthio/status/1639547430738837504

It's not all crowns and sacred carvings. Today's addition to the Ethiopian plunder database - a pair of curved iron scissors brought back by the @britishmuseum's expert on Britain's 1868 Abyssinia "expedition". Strangely, not on display. #ethiopia #maqdala https://www.theprinceandtheplunder.com/2018/01/13/scissors/

Thrilled to see my book "The Prince and the Plunder" in this week's Economist. It calls it a "vivid new book" and includes an interview with @frezerhaile who takes the whole repatriation debate on into new territory. #ethiopia #loot #plunder #maqdala https://www.economist.com/culture/2023/02/23/how-an-ethiopian-prince-came-to-be-buried-at-windsor-castle

Three more items for the Ethiopian plunder database today. Gold discs taken "from the cross on the altar at Magdala", now in the British Museum. Here are their entries: https://www.theprinceandtheplunder.com/2023/02/18/gold-disc-showing-crucifixion/, https://www.theprinceandtheplunder.com/2023/02/18/gold-disc-from-abyssinia/ and https://www.theprinceandtheplunder.com/2023/02/18/gold-disc-showing-angel/ #ethiopia #loot #plunder #maqdala

Some of Ethiopia's Maqdala plunder was last seen on display in a Leeds art show in 1868. Where is it now? The Yorkshire Post covers my appeal asking locals to check their attics and cupboards for the loot. #maqdala #ethiopia #loot #theprinceandtheplunder https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/heritage-and-retro/heritage/historians-bid-to-trace-lost-loot-plundered-by-the-british-during-colonial-war-in-ethiopia-that-was-last-seen-in-leeds-general-infirmary-in-1868-4017467

The Prince and the Plunder has surged to the coveted No. 1 spot in Amazon's Ethiopian history chart! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Prince-Plunder-hundreds-treasures-Ethiopia/dp/0750997362/ref=zg_bs_271183_sccl_1/259-5800047-4162450?psc=1 Thanks to everyone who has bought it up to now. #ethiopia #alemayehu #alamayu #maqdala #plunder

RT @DerilloEyob@twitter.com

A photostat copy of an #Ethiopian manuscript. A commentary on the hymns & anaphoras of the Virgin Mary. According to the archival doc, the original manuscript "was taken from the house of King Tewodros #Maqdala in 1868 by Lt J. R. Diss, Royal Artillery."
The MS is now lost.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/DerilloEyob/status/1618564861998563329

The memorial to Ethiopia's Prince Alemayehu in Rugby School Chapel! (Thanks to the school for letting me in for a rousing service this morning.) "M:S: ALAMAYV ABYSSINIENSIS THEODORI ET TERVWARKAE GNATI VNICI ..." Any Latin scholars out there? #rugbyschool #ethiopia #maqdala

RT @lootplunder@twitter.com

🧵1/4 Second drumroll ... If you are interested in Britain's 1868 invasion of Ethiopia - and can't wait for my book 'The Prince and the Plunder' http://theprinceandtheplunder.com to come out in February - here is my ultimate list of things you need to read. #maqdala https://medium.com/@andrew.heavens_35872/britains-1868-abyssinian-expedition-the-ultimate-reading-list-b9fca8c0c2c8

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/lootplunder/status/1606578458615635968

🧵1/4 Second drumroll ... If you are interested in Britain's 1868 invasion of Ethiopia - and can't wait for my book 'The Prince and the Plunder' http://theprinceandtheplunder.com to come out in February - here is my ultimate list of things you need to read. #maqdala https://medium.com/@andrew.heavens_35872/britains-1868-abyssinian-expedition-the-ultimate-reading-list-b9fca8c0c2c8

Who knew? Ethiopia's Emperor Tewodros II is a character in the computer game Age of Empires III. His catchphrase: "We have purchased a few guns to turn the tides of war." Wonder if you can re-fight Maqdala?" #maqdala #Ethiopia https://ageofempires.fandom.com/wiki/Emperor_Tewodros#History

🧵6/6 And one issue for Ethiopia. Greece pretty much won the argument when it built the @acropolismuseum. Is it time for a Maqdala museum in Addis, in Gondar or on top of Maqdala itself? Perhaps next to a memorial to Alemayehu. #Ethiopia #maqdala #magdala @alulapan @lemnsissay

On an unrelated note - Ethiopian manuscripts plundered from Maqdala in the Royal Collection: https://www.rct.uk/collection/search#/39/collection/1005081/discourses-of-the-archangels-michael-gabriel-and-raphael-rufael-geez; https://www.rct.uk/collection/search#/38/collection/1005080/discourse-of-john-chrysostom-in-praise-of-john-the-baptist-geez; https://www.rct.uk/collection/search#/31/collection/1005083/miracles-of-the-virgin-mary-geez; https://www.rct.uk/collection/search#/30/collection/1005079/the-miracles-of-our-lord-jesus-geez; https://www.rct.uk/collection/search#/15/collection/1005084/the-four-gospels-geez and https://www.rct.uk/collection/search#/14/collection/1005082/nagara-maryam-geez #ethiopia #maqdala #magdala

The @ExploreWellcome collection also has this image of Ethiopia's King of Kings Tewodros II after he killed himself as the British/Indian troops moved in. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/wjecckea/images?id=dkzy9u3g [See full credit in Alt Text] #ethiopia #tewodros #maqdala #magdala

Loot of the day: Is now a good time to mention the five, maybe six, maybe more healing scrolls taken during the British 'expedition' to Ethiopia in 1868, now in London's Wellcome Collection @ExploreWellcome @profdanhicks? Including https://wellcomecollection.org/works/praznpsh #ethiopia #maqdala #loot

Loot of the day: More Mary. More Maqdala. As it says on the cover: "WEDDÁSÉ MÁRYÁM - Part of an Ethiopic Manuscript Taken At Magdala, Abyssinia, 1868. Lieut. E.H.H. Collen R.A." Now in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin #ethiopia #maqdala #magdala #loot https://viewer.cbl.ie/viewer/object/W_916/1/LOG_0000/

Loot of the day: Lieutenant Borrett took "two Abyssinian swords...a ring I cut off a dead enemy, part of a native bible and a bullet that fell at my feet during the fight" during the British "expedition" to Ethiopia in 1868. Here's the ring in Lancaster http://kingsownmuseum.com/mus03campaigns1868.htm #ethiopia #loot #plunder #empire #britishempire #repatriation #abyssinia #maqdala #magdala #africa #alamayu #alemayehu #lancaster #army #britisharmy #military

In tribute to @DerilloEyob's work with the Ethiopian manuscripts in the @britishlibrary. One of the jewels of its collection of 358 books taken from Maqdala in 1868 - an C18th copy of the Gospels. See the British Museum ownership stamps. #ethiopia #maqdala https://bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_509