Emperor Tewodros’ lock of plaited hair & blood-stained shirt returned

158 years after British soldiers of the Kings Own Royal Regiment took a piece of hair and part of the shirt of Emperor Tewodros to Britain, Dr Robin Jackson, a retired British Colonel brought these relics back to Ethiopia after a handover ceremony organized by the King’s Own Royal Regiment Museum trustees in Lancaster on 12 May, followed by a further ceremony in Addis Ababa held at the Ethiopian Heritage Authority on May 15. In 1868, during the Magdala expedition to liberate the hostages taken by Emperor Tewodros, the British forces that stormed the Emperor’s mountaintop stronghold at Meqdela, found the… The post Emperor Tewodros’ lock of plaited hair & blood-stained shirt returned appeared first on Ethiopia Observer .

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