Swiss authorities on Monday returned 18 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria in a ceremony at the National Museum in Lagos, the latest ...

Among the artifacts returned by Switzerland is a Benin Eroro, a four-sided ceremonial bell and container for herbs.

Dan Hicks, author of The Brutish Museums, has said that Benin bronzes – pieces stolen from Nigeria during the 1897 British ...

In an excerpt from his new book, Barnaby Phillips visits contemporary casters who are still making bronzes using ancient techniques. Craftsman finishing polishing the last details of a bronze ...

The Benin Bronzes — some roughly 3,000 stunning bronze artworks sculpted by African metalsmiths between the 16th and 19th centuries — were crafted from metal mined from Germany's Rhineland region, a ...

Author Dan Hicks takes a detailed look at what really happened before and after the UK's punitive raid on the Benin Palace in 1897. Brass plaque looted by Captain George Le Clerc Egerton from Benin ...

Edo artist/Benin kingdom court style, bracelet, 17th-18th century, copper alloy, gilt traces. Gift of Walt Disney World Co., a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. Collection of Smithsonian National ...

A new online database launched last Friday catalogs objects looted in the Benin Expedition of 1897 and now housed in disparate collections around the world. Named Digital Benin, it is the first ...

Update, 6/16/22: The Smithsonian Institution voted to repatriate 29 of its 39 Benin bronzes to Nigeria, and plans to return to Nigeria’s National Commission for Museums and Monuments "at a later date.

In 2012, the Museum of Fine Arts received what seemed like an unimaginable promised gift: a trove of centuries-old masterworks from the Benin kingdom, located in present-day Nigeria. The gift was not ...

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 ...