Researchers examining the wall of a ceremonial tomb in Benin found proteins that could have come only from human blood. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

T HE SACKING of Benin City by a heavily armed expeditionary force in February 1897 was said to be an act of revenge in a bitter trade dispute between Britain and the Kingdom of Benin, east of ...

At a ceremony Friday in New York City, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts returned two works of art that were stolen from ...

Learn interesting facts about the Kingdom of Benin, such as when it began and when the Endo people settled in the rainforest with this BBC Bitesize guide.

All the art of Benin was wrought to please the despotic king, or Oba, and nearly all the paper-thin plaques bear holes where nails attached them to the columns of his royal palace.

That 200,000 people have lined up for a show suggests Benin has found an answer. ... Upon completion next year, the wall is vying to be the world’s longest piece of street art at nearly a mile.

LEFT: A brass relief plaque, dating to the mid 16th century, of the kind that covered the walls of the Oba's palace in historic Benin, now in Nigeria's Edo state. and RIGHT: A wooden commemorative ...