The iconic Homo erectus fossil was welcomed home with a repatriation ceremony and a new museum exhibit in Jakarta.

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

The items were taken in the late 19th century from what was then called the Dutch East Indies. Indonesia had been trying to ...

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The Netherlands will give back the "Java Man" fossils that were taken "against the will of the people" from colonial Indonesia. The fossils were the first to show links between apes and humans.The ...

A fossil skull of an ancient human (homo erectus) at the Indonesian exhibition, The Oldest Civilization on Earth 130 Years After Pithecanthropus Erectus, at the National Museum, Jakarta, December 20, ...

The Dutch Ministry of Culture also announced on Wednesday about returning approximately 28,000 other fossils to Indonesia.

An Indonesian claim against a Dutch museum has pushed the debate about restitution into the realm of the natural history museum — where it hasn’t been much of an issue until now. A skull cap belonging ...

The two most ancient fossil humans known are Sinanthropus pekinensis, the old man of China, and Pithecanthropus erectus, the ape man of Java. Their ages have been variously put at 400,000 to 1,000,000 ...