The Benin bronzes were taken when the city was looted ... At the moment, many museums still hold hundreds of pieces of Benin art. These artefacts are important to the people of modern-day Africa ...

Benin art features people ... This will keep my dad busy! My dad is a bronze caster. He makes all kinds of stuff. But the Oba wants him to make a very fancy mask in time for the parade.

The German government returned some of the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria– 125 years after they were stolen by the British troops in 1897. Cultural historian, art and heritage specialist Dr. Oluwatoyin ...

An curved arrow pointing right. In the past few years, Europe and the United States have been returning stolen bronzes from the historical Kingdom of Benin. While today's Benin Bronze casters ...

The US Supreme Court has denied a petition to block the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. from restituting 29 Benin ...

In the head and hair style, the sculpture Anyanwu, references are made to the Benin Bronzes. Born in Onitsha in 1917 to a father who was a traditional wood carver and a successful merchant mother ...

Benin Bronzes are exhibited in museums around the world, but the largest collection can be found in the British Museum. While Germany announced the return of the bronzes in its possession, some ...

The Benin Bronzes became known internationally as works of art during the decades they have been in Western museums, but they have a spiritual significance which predates this. They were made by ...

Cambridge holds 116 Bronzes in its Museum of Archaeology ... be housed in the Edo Museum of West African Art (EMOWAA) that it plans to build in Benin City. It is the capital of the former Kingdom ...