Fly over Galle, a beautifully preserved Dutch colonial fort city on Sri Lanka’s southern coast, where red-tiled rooftops, ...

Galle Fort, a Unesco World Heritage site on the southwest coast of Sri Lanka ... s colonial past and cultural richness. Built by the Portuguese in 1588, it was fortified extensively by the Dutch ...

MANILA, Philippines — Hundreds of priceless, cultural artifacts looted during the Dutch ... Sri Lanka is the latest in a move by Western Powers to repatriate items they plundered during colonial ...

he Netherlands said Thursday it will hand back hundreds of colonial-era artifacts to Indonesia and Sri Lanka, including a ... last year looking into illegal Dutch colonial acquisitions now being ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Two Dutch ... and Sri Lanka — from a richly decorated cannon to precious metals and jewelry — that were taken, often by force, in the colonial era.

TheNetherlands returned formal ownership to Sri Lanka of six colonial-eratreasures on Monday, including a more than 275-year-old cannon inlaid with gold,silver, bronze and rubies. Ata ceremony at the ...