The Benin Traditional Council has announced the suspension of 67 Enigie in the Benin Kingdom, with immediate effect.

Created between the 14th and 16th century, British soldiers looted the Benin Bronzes from modern-day Nigeria in the 19th century. Of the looted statues taken during the Benin Expedition of 1897 ...

Thousands of these culturally significant sculptures and carvings were stolen during the violent destruction of Benin City, in modern-day Nigeria's Edo state, in 1897. The treasures were sold ...

Frank Irabor, Secretary of the Benin Traditional Council, confirmed the development, stating that the suspension was ...

Stolen from the Kingdom of Benin (now part of modern-day Nigeria) by British soldiers and eventually acquired by the Dutch State Collection, 113 of the objects to be returned are held at the ...

The Netherlands says it will return more than 100 Benin Bronzes that British troops looted from Nigeria in the late 19th Century and which ended up in a Dutch museum. Thousands of these culturally ...

The Benin Traditional Council has announced the suspension of 67 Enigie in Benin Kingdom, with immediate effect. Frank Irabor, the Secretary of Benin Traditional Council, made this known in a ...

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Kingdom, located in what is now modern-day Ghana, was one of the most powerful and influential states in West Africa during ...