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 ...

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.

Its return signifies the culmination of Benin's efforts to recover artefacts looted during the colonial era. The royal treasure is intrinsically linked to the ancient Kingdom of Dahomey ...

By connecting clues across time and geography, researchers are building what could become the first complete map of our shared ... ancestral history." Ancient Kingdom of Kush: Sudan was home ...

Between 2021 and 2024, some of Ethiopia’s Maqdala Treasures – which include a Bible, crosses and an imperial shield seized by British forces during the 1868 Battle of Maqdala – were returned to ...

“Without such a resolution, the gallery could not be sustained in the long term.” Of the 34 pieces the MFA received, 32 were from the ancient Kingdom of Benin in what is now southern Nigeria. The ...

These ancient kingdoms, many of which still exist ... notable kingdoms included the Yoruba empires of Ife and Oyo, the Benin Kingdom, the Ibibio-Efik Kingdom, and the Ijaw city-states of Nembe ...

Nigeria is on a quest to get thousands of intricate bronze sculptures and castings that were looted by British soldiers during a raid on the then-separate Kingdom of Benin, located in what is now ...

Brilliant Booty. A great center of African art was the ancient kingdom of Benin, located in the south of present-day Nigeria. Its people were notorious for their practice of the black-magic juju ...

Gus Casely-Hayford travels to Nigeria and Mali to explore the story behind a series of magnificent 16th-century bronzes made in the ancient kingdom of Benin.