It has been announced that the skulls of 37 Algerians kept in a Paris museum are to be returned to Algiers.
This was announced by President Macron in an attempt to improve France's relations with its former colony.
The heads were cut off by French soldiers during colonisation.
The skulls, displayed at the National Museum of Natural History, were brought to Paris in the 19th century as ''trophies.''
Prominent among the skulls was that of Sheikh Bouziane. It was Sheikh Bouziane who led the resistance during the 1849 siege of Zaatcha, a village in north Algeria where about 800 people were killed.
Algerian historian, Ali Farid Belkadi, had launched a campaign for the return of the remains in 2011. During Mr Macron's visit to Algiers this week, he said he was ready to play ball.
According to Ahmed Ouyahia, the prime minister of Algeria, France was also ready to hand over a copy of its national archives for the period between 1830 and 1962 when the country was a French colony.
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