Like some West African music, the Benin brass plaques are principally concerned ... their quality and their significance, was the British Museum curator Charles Hercules Read: "It need scarcely ...

Nigeria is expected to receive over 100 Benin Bronze artifacts that were ... their home land for over 100 years. Meanwhile, the British Museum still has nearly 1,000 Nigerian artifacts and has ...

The Benin Bronzes are a collection of thousands of metal plaques and sculptures that ... two hundred were housed in the ...

The plaque is on display at the British Museum. Obas Ozolua and Esigie both encouraged trade with Europe. Benin City is at least four miles wide. The city has wide, straight roads, lined by houses.

LAGOS - Nigeria's national museum commission will ... and castings that were looted by British soldiers during a raid on the then-separate Kingdom of Benin, located in what is now southern Nigeria ...

The university has been assured that the treasures will be placed in a museum. In 2022, Cambridge museums pledged to return a collection of 116 artefacts taken by British forces from the Kingdom ...

LAGOS, Feb 26 (Reuters) - (This Feb. 26 story has been corrected to make clear that the royal museum ... looted by British soldiers during a raid on the then-separate Kingdom of Benin, located ...