The Dutch museum has removed 113 Benin bronzes from display and is restoring them, ahead of shipping them back to Lagos in June. The bronzes were looted from the ancient Kingdom of Benin ...

The Dutch museum has removed 113 Benin bronzes from display and is restoring them, ahead of shipping them back to Lagos in June. The bronzes were looted from the ancient Kingdom of Benin, in ...

In the heart of Nigeria's Edo State lies the ancient Benin Kingdom, a monarchy steeped in rich cultural heritage and traditions. Among its most intriguing customs is the practice of the Oba (king ...

The Wereldmuseum (World Museum) in Leiden is restoring 113 of the ancient sculptures ... on a trade mission to the then independent kingdom of Benin, in the south of present-day Nigeria.

(The Met, for its part, sent objects violently plundered from the Kingdom of Benin by British troops back ... wings and these galleries. The art of ancient Egypt is still separated out in a ...

Kirt Kempter likes to tease conservation groups about their efforts to try to stop erosion in the Galisteo Basin. As a geologist, he contextualizes time a bit differently than other people. He ...

Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Archaeologists in the Egyptian city of Luxor have unearthed the tombs of three prominent officials from the New Kingdom period, which lasted between ...

Geologists working in Mississippi recently stumbled upon an incredible find: the fossil of an ancient marine apex predator ... the lead author of the MDEQ's geological map, pulled the vertebra ...