French President, Emmanuel Macron, was a special guest at a ceremony marking the return of looted artifacts to Benin.
The 26 items, known as the "Abomey Treasures," were pilfered from the African nation by the French army 129 years ago.
The treasures, which include wooden anthropomorphic statues, royal thrones and sacred altars, are on display for one last time in France at the Musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac before being repatriated in November.
Macron remarked that the return of the items to
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