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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 ...

Edo State Government has ratified the decision of the Oba of Benin, Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Oba Ewuare II, to suspend 71 Enigie (Dukes) in Benin Kingdom, thereby overriding five ...

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 ...

Nigeria's history is deeply intertwined with its ancient kingdoms. This is the oldest kingdom in Nigeria [Nigerian News Leader] A Agnes Isoje Follow; Nigeria's history dates back long before the ...

The so-called Benin Bronzes were stolen from Nigeria's Kingdom of Benin by British soldiers in 1897. The British went on to sell their spoils, and the treasures made their way to the Dutch government.

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Benin Bronze. (© The Trustees of the British Museum/Art Resource, NY) Between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Edo people of the Kingdom of Benin, which controlled territory on the ...

The items were looted by French troops during an invasion and subsequent colonial occupation of the kingdom of Dahomey, now the present-day Republic of Benin, in November 1892.