Archaeological excavation in Benin City, Nigeria, ahead of the construction of the Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) has ...

The Denver Art Museum has formally removed a looted Benin plaque from its collection — the first step toward repatriating a prized relic that the British plundered in West Africa more than a century ...

At a ceremony Friday in New York City, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts returned two works of art that were stolen from present-day Nigeria more than a century ago. Commemorative head, 16th–17th century.

It has the imprimatur of the artist-elongated figure, pointed lips, full beaded. The sensuality is all too evident. A temptress? But the skilfully executed bronze bust, entitled: Edo Maiden, is far ...

It was theft. There is no question about that. In 1897, British forces launched a “punitive expedition” against the Benin kingdom in what is now southern Nigeria. Bent on avenging the ambush and ...

British troops in 1897 mounted a violent, retaliatory raid on the Kingdom of Benin, in what’s now southern Nigeria, looting and burning the royal palace and sending the oba, or king, into exile. The ...

The largest collection of looted goods from the former kingdom resides in the UK, yet the British government is more reluctant than other countries to return the treasures to their rightful place.

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 ...

Nov. 7 (UPI) --A highly anticipated database of the Benin Bronzes, a massive trove of art and cultural artifacts looted from the Kingdom of Benin by the British empire in 1897, launched Friday. The ...

British troops in 1897 mounted a violent, retaliatory raid on the Kingdom of Benin, in what’s now southern Nigeria, looting and burning the royal palace and sending the oba, or king, into exile. The ...