The Benin Bronzes are a set of plaques and sculptures from the Kingdom of Benin in modern-day Nigeria . Made between the 13th and 16th centuries, the pieces illustrate scenes from court life, ...

Sculpture is another major form of traditional African art, with wood as its most popular medium. The Yoruba people of ...

The specimen, an extinct Jamaican giant galliwasp, a reptile which the team named Celeste, was last documented as seen in the ...

Extracted from: West African review (London) 25, March 1954, pages 208-209. Benin bronzes are rising in value. At a recent Sotheby's auction, one cock went for £1,400 and a bronze ram went for £700.

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...

The Netherlands yesterday pledged to return to Indonesia the remains of “Java Man,” the first-ever Homo erectus unearthed by modern scientists in a landmark discovery for human evolution. The Dutch ...

The heirs of their original owner (Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, from a prominent Jewish family) claimed the paintings were sold under duress during World War II, but came to an out-of-court ...

From the clinking of gold bangles stacked along a woman’s arm to the sharp tap of high heels against the floor, the air hums ...

I have done several articles on the subject in the past and my central theme has always been that we do not have any other country to call our own; so, we must join hands together in the task of ...

If senior secondary school students of Nigerian origin were asked to write an essay with the title of this article, I can say confidently that it would be interesting and highly competitive. I have ...

From the Black Magus on the clock tower in St Mark’s Square, to the evocative street names referencing far-flung lands — Calle dello Spezier, Ponte de le Turchette — and the Asian and African tropes ...