Withdrawn from auction in February, the shield will make a stop at the Toledo Museum of Art before going on public display at the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa

Ethiopian Heritage Authority asked to contact vendor to request restitution of battle trophy taken following British expeditionary force's punitive siege of Maqdala in 1868

Disagreement centred over whether the painting, looted in 1868 and later sold to a private collector in Portugal, should be bought by the government and returned to Ethopia

The painting had been looted at the battle of Maqdala in 1868, but is now in the possession of a Portuguese collector

Restitution of tabot, which was bought by an art scholar for this purpose, puts spotlight on the British Museum to return 11 in its possession

An Art Newspaper investigation uncovers new details on the infamous seizure in 1868 by Richard Holmes of a 500-year-old painting of Christ, the Kwer’ata Re’esu, which never reached the London institution

Westminster Abbey, which is directly under the monarch’s jurisdiction, currently refuses to return the holy tablet

At the ceremony in London, the Ethiopian ambassador renewed calls for museums to return Maqdala objects

Busby auction house confirms it has "negotiated a settlement" after Ethiopian officials requested the return of items stolen by British troops in a brutal 1868 battle

Case of Ethiopian tabots shows that trustees' hands are not tied when it comes to the disposal of certain items from the collection

The two locks will be buried at the monastery where emperor Tewodros' body was interred

Sacred object taken by British troops in the 19th century is concealed inside an altar

The Kwer'ata Re'esu was kept in a bank vault in Portugal, where our correspondent examined it and took colour photographs in 1998

As a touring exhibition, African Zion—The Sacred Art Of Ethiopia, opened in the United States in 1993, a scholar of Ethiopian history asked what had become of the country's most important painting of all