The items include 19th century thrones, sacred altars and royal statues and are part of an estimated 90,000 items from sub-saharan Africa currently in France.

France’s return of the royal treasures of Abomey could be a major first step in negotiating the restitution of similar items — a process that has in many instances prompted sensitive and ...

From 1625 to 1900, 12 kings succeeded one another at the head of the powerful Kingdom of Abomey. With the exception of King Akaba, who had his own separate enclosure, they all had their palaces built ...

Macron formalized the return of the treasures looted during the French colonization, citing the need to "give African youth back access to their heritage." ...

France will give back to Benin artworks that were taken from the former French colony's Royal Palaces of Abomey, which has since become a UNESCO World Heritage site, French President Emmanuel ...

This fierce all-female army was so ruthless that European colonists called them the Amazons after the merciless warriors of Greek mythology.

Researchers examining the wall of a ceremonial tomb in Benin found proteins that could have come only from human blood.

Date 2019 Type Books History Physical description 483 pages illustrations (some color) 24 cm Place Benin Data Source Smithsonian Libraries Topic Art objects--History Art, Beninese--History Ceremonial ...

Jean Bayol, a French naval officer who visited Abomey in December 1889, watched as a teenage recruit, a girl named Nanisca “who had not yet killed anyone,” was tested.

Twenty-six works of art seized by French colonial soldiers in 1892 returned to Benin on Wednesday, a landmark in the long fight by African countries to recover looted artifacts.

The significant number of reports prepared by the UNESCO Secretariat and the Advisory Bodies to the World Heritage Committee represents an exceptional documentation on numerous conservation issues. It ...

Twenty-six works of art seized by French colonial soldiers in 1892 returned to Benin on Wednesday, a landmark in the long fight by African countries to recover looted artifacts.