As discussions between the museum and Lehman had gone on for a long time without any visible progress, Lehman requested the museum to return the artefacts. As a result, the museum will return the ...

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 ...

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 ...

By the 1400s, when Portuguese traders became the first Europeans to get involved in the African ivory trade, many African societies — including the Yao, Kamba, Ngonde, and the Kingdom of Benin ...

The Edo people established this kingdom in present-day Edo State, and it became a wealthy and powerful entity before the arrival of European explorers. The Obas (rulers) of Benin wielded immense ...

The Netherlands will return 119 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria nearly 130 years after the pieces were stolen by the British and sold to the Dutch. "This restitution contributes to redressing a ...

Between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Edo people of the Kingdom of Benin, which controlled ... which were traded by the Portuguese; a later style called Birmingham manillas, which ...

and other Portuguese explorers explored West Africa in 1472 while seeking a sea route to Asia. As a result, the Portuguese established trade with the Benin Kingdom, Lagos, and other regions along the ...