Thirty years ago — before coffee chains dotted South Bay streets — Rick Hankus took a chance and decided to open Java Man in a decades-old beach cottage in Hermosa Beach. Hankus and his staff at 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 ...

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 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 ...

Pithecanthropus erectus, the 500,000-year-old Java ape-man and first of humanoid typediscovered, whose thighbone, skull-top, and grinding teeth are in the private possession of Dr. Eugen Dubois, of ...