Author Dan Hicks takes a detailed look at what really happened before and after the UK's punitive raid on the Benin Palace in 1897. Brass plaque looted by Captain George Le Clerc Egerton from Benin ...

The Stanley Museum of Art is now the first U.S. institution to return works to the former Benin royal family. Court officials carrying the Benin Bronzes during the restitution ceremony. Photo by ...

The museum will return the items in an agreement with the Nigeria’s National Commission for Museums and Monuments. A Dutch museum will repatriate its portion of the Benin Bronzes to their rightful ...

The Benin Bronzes — some roughly 3,000 stunning bronze artworks sculpted by African metalsmiths between the 16th and 19th centuries — were crafted from metal mined from Germany's Rhineland region, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Netherlands returns more than 100 Benin Bronzes looted from Nigeria It took more than a century but they are finally home. The ...

A new online database launched last Friday catalogs objects looted in the Benin Expedition of 1897 and now housed in disparate collections around the world. Named Digital Benin, it is the first ...

He has five wives, a $500,000 Rolls Royce — and is trying to get back $30 billion in artworks stolen from his ancestors 135 years ago, including some of the Met Museum’s most precious works. Oba ...

LAGOS, Dec 3 (Reuters) - An online archive bringing together information on thousands of Benin Bronze artefacts in museums around the world is expected to go live at the end of next year, one of the ...

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by The Art Newspaper, an editorial partner of CNN Style. The Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of African Art in Washington, DC has removed ...

Precious artifacts that were looted during the colonial era will finally be returned to Nigeria, the German government has announced. The first returns are planned for 2022. In a joint declaration ...

A planned presentation of the Benin bronzes at Berlin’s Humboldt Forum, which would take place before the return is completed, has also been suggested. The speed with which this decision was ...

Benin-style bronze wall art is a unique African craft that reflects a rich cultural heritage. It is characterized by ...