British soldiers took the bronzes from the historic Kingdom of Benin ... the people of Benin obtained the brass for many of these artefacts by trading with Portuguese merchants in exchange for ...

Oba Esigie reigned over the Kingdom of Benin, but the contact between the Kingdom of Benin and the Portuguese began before Esigie’s reign. In 1486, during the reign of Oba Ozolua (Esigie’s ...

Oba Esigie, the King of the Benin Kingdom from 1504 to 1550, made history as the first recorded Nigerian to speak a foreign language. He was said to have mastered Portuguese at a time when few ...

With full ownership rights, the museum would have worked out an arrangement with the Oba of Benin, the legitimate owner of the artefacts that the British had stolen in the notorious 1897 invasion of ...

Four hundred years ago sailors and explorers were ... right off their decks, a Kingdom of Women ready to enslave them and a vicious black hole ready to suck boat and bodies into the abyss. Among the ...

The royal leader of the Kingdom of Benin sought the return of artifacts displayed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The collector who owned them took them back instead. By Colin Moynihan and Tom ...

The Museum of Fine Arts will close its Benin Kingdom Gallery on April 28, the museum announced Tuesday. The gallery opened in 2013 after the MFA accepted works lent from the collection of Robert Owen ...

The cleric said this is the fear of the remnants of the Benin Kingdom, which is currently experiencing internal turmoil over politicising the traditional institution. Dr. Emokpae warned that if ...

Directed by Ridley Scott and starring Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, and Liam Neeson, Kingdom of Heaven had plenty of buzz surrounding its release in 2005. It didn’t quite earn critical acclaim ...

Because many of the sculptures had been originally plundered in a bloody British raid in 1897, the MFA subsequently sought a deal to transfer title to the Kingdom of Benin in exchange for a long ...