Benin, once known as Igodomigodo, was the kingdom of rulers who regarded themselves as sky-kings, those whose divine rule is derived from the sky – Ogiso. At the eclipse of this dynasty ...

Edo legend says that no one in Benin had ever seen a horse before Oranmiyan arrived! In the 1100s the Ogisos lost control of their kingdom. The Edo people feared that their country would fall into ...

Thousands of colorfully dressed people marched through the ancient streets of the proud city of Benin. Streets that ... much more than a ceremony hence the kingdom’s strict and largely ...

Journalists were barred from covering the case involving the suspended Enigie (Dukes) of Benin Kingdom and the Oba of Benin, Ewuare II when the hearing resumed on Monday at Court Six of the Benin ...

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 ...

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 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 ...