NATIONAL Museums Board Director General George Mudenda says Zambia will engage the British government in bilateral talks over the return of the Broken Hill Man’s skull. The Broken Hill Man was unearthed in 1921 by an unnamed African and Swiss miner Tom Zwigelaar. It was later donated to the then British Museum, now the Natural History Museum, which houses about 25,000 human remains. Broken Hill Man was initially named as Homo Rhodesiensis by a palaeontologist, Arthur Smith, but was later classified as Homo Heidelbergensis and is believed to have first appeared 600,000 years ago. The Broken Hill Man is displayed in the Natural History Museum’s Human Evolution Gallery in Britain. However, the Natural History Museum is a trust and under...
