FILE PHOTO: Benin bronzes on display at British Museum in London Advertisement ...

This plaque is now in the British Museum in London ... Narrator: Hello, future people of the UK. I’d like to show you around the Benin civilisation. But to do that, you’ve got to go back ...

Cambridge’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology came to hold 116 bronzes, which it pledged to return at the same time Oxford’s Pitt Rivers and Ashmolean museums promised to hand over their 97.

where the Benin Bronzes originate. In the United Kingdom, institutions such as the Horniman Museum and Cambridge University have returned only a few items to Nigeria. This piecemeal approach ...

Nigeria's Museum Agrees With Royal Ruler on Custody of Benin Bronzes (This Feb. 26 story has been corrected to make clear that the royal museum will house some of, not all, the artefacts ...

LAGOS, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Nigeria's national museum commission will be responsible for retrieving and keeping priceless Benin Bronzes, taking on the task with the assent of the royal ruler ...

He said the Oba, with support from NCMM, was working to establish the Benin Royal Museum, which would eventually house some of the artefacts. "So, the Oba has given the NCMM the blessing to ...

FILE PHOTO: Benin art objects and bronzes are pictured at the Linden Museum in Stuttgart, Germany, June 29, 2022. Picture taken June 29, 2022. REUTERS/Louisa Off/File Photo ...