France looted treasures from West Africa 130 years ago. Now 26 prized artifacts are going back to Benin.

Twenty-six looted colonial-era artifacts are to be displayed in a French museum one final time before they are returned home to Benin, in what officials in the West African country have said is a “historic milestone.”

The items, which include 19th-century thrones, sacred altars and royal statues, were plundered by the French army amid the sacking of Abomey Palace in 1892 and have been held at the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac in Paris since 2003.