WASHINGTON (7News) — In a ceremony Tuesday morning, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art formally transferred ownership of 29 Benin bronzes to Nigeria. The bronzes are a small part of the ...

The Horniman Museum and Gardens announced Sunday that it had agreed to return Benin Bronzes looted in the late 19th century from what is now Nigeria. Pictured here: A brass plaque depicts a war chief ...

Returned artefacts from the "Benin Bronzes" collection are displayed at the signing ceremony and handover of the 119 Benin Bronzes returned from the Netherlands to Nigeria at the National museum ...

The Rhode Island School of Design Museum returned a Nigerian bronze sculpture, “Head of a King (Oba),” to the Nigerian National Collections Oct. 11. The sculpture had been held by the museum since ...

BERLIN (AP) — Germany and Nigeria on Friday signed an agreement paving the way for the return of hundreds of artifacts known as the Benin Bronzes that were taken from Africa more than 120 years ago — ...

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These are pendants worn by high ranking officials in Benin The Netherlands says it will return more than 100 Benin Bronzes that British troops looted from Nigeria in the late 19th Century and which ...

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, ...

LONDON — A museum in southeast London agreed Sunday to return a collection of Benin Bronzes looted in the late 19th century from what is now Nigeria as cultural institutions throughout Britain come ...

The Netherlands has officially handed back 119 ancient sculptures stolen from the former Nigerian kingdom of Benin more than 120 years ago during the colonial era. Olugbile Holloway, director-general ...