The return of the Dubois Collection from the Netherlands places Indonesia at the heart of human evolution studies, opening ...

Java Man, the first fossil evidence of Homo erectus, has returned to Indonesia after over a century in the Netherlands. This ...

The parts of the skeleton – a skull cap, molar and thigh bone – were the first known specimens of Homo erectus ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch government has agreed to return thousands of fossils to Indonesia from a world-renowned collection, after a commission ruled that they were removed in the ...

The Netherlands pledged on Friday to return to Indonesia the remains of "Java Man", the first-ever "Homo Erectus" unearthed by modern scientists in a landmark discovery for human evolution. The Barron ...

JAKARTA, Oct 21 (Reuters) - 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 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excavation of ancient human remains in Indonesia, in the 1890s, were done with great care – according to an analysis of unpublished documents from the dig.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 ...