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 ...

Three Swiss museums have returned 18 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, a new step in the African's country decades-long struggle to repatriate its looted cultural heritage. View on euronews ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A visitor walks past the National Museum in Lagos on April 23, 2026 (OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT) Swiss authorities on Monday returned 18 ...

Famous for its intricate bronze works, the kingdom's art continues to influence contemporary artists across the globe. From ...

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 ...

THE SACKING of Benin City by a heavily armed expeditionary force in February 1897 was said to be an act of revenge in a bitter trade dispute between Britain and the Kingdom of Benin, east of Lagos.

He has five wives, a $500,000 Rolls Royce — and is trying to get back $30 billion in artworks stolen from his ancestors 135 years ago, including some of the Met Museum’s most precious works. Oba ...

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 ...

A planned presentation of the Benin bronzes at Berlin’s Humboldt Forum, which would take place before the return is completed, has also been suggested. The speed with which this decision was ...

Hundreds of the artefacts were taken from the Kingdom of Benin, in what is now part of Nigeria, after British forces attacked ...

Several institutions based in Switzerland just held a ceremony to return a trove of Benin Bronzes back to Nigeria.