Over 1800 Aboriginal artefacts have been returned home from the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
The returned artefacts that include stone tools and grindstones are being repatriated by AIATSIS-led Return of Cultural Heritage program after they were donated to the Museum in the 1970s by Mr Carl Shipman.
AIATSIS CEO Craig Ritchie says “It’s a great pleasure to have this material back in Australia, where it can connect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and indeed all Australians with over 60,000 years of history and culture.”