The Netherlands pledged on Friday to return to Indonesia the remains of "Java Man", the first-ever "Homo Erectus" unearthed by modern scientists in a landmark discovery for human evolution. The Barron ...

The items were taken in the late 19th century from what was then called the Dutch East Indies. Indonesia had been trying to get them back for decades. By Nina Siegal Reporting from Amsterdam The ...

Excavated with colonial labor and shipped to the Netherlands, the famous fossil is being repatriated to Indonesia along with 28,000 other fossils. The skull cap of 'Java Man' was discovered by Eugène ...

Rick Hankus, owner of Hermosa Beach’s Java Man coffee shop, who was known as a “humble hero,” “legend” and the “kindest person” who gave back to the South Bay community and beyond, died last month. He ...

Hermosans who want to impress out-of-town guests and business clients probably won’t take them to one of the town’s many upscale restaurants. They’re more likely to take them to Java Man for coffee ...

he foreign ministers of the Netherlands and Indonesia hailed the plan to return thousands of artifacts unearthed during the Dutch colonial era, including the remains of the Homo erectus known as “Java ...

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, ...

JAKARTA – Indonesia is set to receive thousands of fossils from the Netherlands, including the remains of first-ever “Homo Erectus” unearthed in Java, a move the government hailed as a cultural ...

Java Man return to Java: Netherlands to return Dubois Collection of 28,000 fossils to Indonesia A Dutch commission ruled the haul, which includes the Java Man skull cap, was seized 'against the will ...

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 HAGUE - The Netherlands said it would give back a major fossil collection to Indonesia, granting its former colony's request to recover historical artifacts, including bones of the "Java Man", the ...