This 169-room hotel, expected to commence operations within the next year, represents the 12th addition to the Group’s portfolio in Nigeria and serves as their inaugural establishment in Benin City.

Twenty mummified bodies including those of children were discovered in a building in Benin City in southern Nigeria, the country’s police said, shocking many in what is usually a busy neighborhood.

For the first time in its history, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art will travel an exhibition to the continent of Africa. “Chief S.O. Alonge: Photographer to the Royal Court of Benin, ...

The Smithsonian Board of Regents voted today, June 13, to deaccession 29 Benin bronzes held in the National Museum of African Art’s collection. The bronzes, which were removed during the 1897 British ...

They are part of a collection of artifacts that the British army looted in an 1897 raid on Benin City, in what is now Nigeria, that are now scattered through museums and private collections around ...

London’s Horniman Museum has announced it’ll hand over ownership of its 72 bronzes to Nigeria, home to Benin City, which the British looted in 1897. We investigate their story.