‘Beheaded in 1897, skull displayed in Paris’s national history museum for about a century,’ five things you may hitherto not know about King Toera, Malagasy monarch decapitated by French troops during a 19th-century massacre France on Tuesday returned three colonial-era skulls to Madagascar, including one believed to be that of a Malagasy king decapitated by French troops during a 19th-century massacre. The skull, believed to belong to King Toera, was handed over in the first restitution of human remains since France passed a law facilitating their return in 2023, along…
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