The Denver Art Museum has formally removed a looted Benin plaque from its collection — the first step toward repatriating a prized relic that the British plundered in West Africa more than a century ...

The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. Victor Ehikhamenor describes his childhood in Benin City, Nigeria, as magical. “My grandfather was a big ...

Left: A bronze plaque with two men holding short bows and swords. Right: A plaque showing a person with a ceremonial sword, musicians with gongs and trumpets at the bottom, and the lower-halves of ...

Nigeria's government has received two Benin bronzes repatriated from a US museum, marking a milestone in its effort to reclaim its looted cultural heritage ...

At a ceremony Friday in New York City, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts returned two works of art that were stolen from present-day Nigeria more than a century ago. Commemorative head, 16th–17th century.

Using long iron tongs, Victor Uinmwen Aduwe and Matthew Mathias pick a blazing pot from a fire and pour a thick golden liquid ...

London's Horniman Museum said on Sunday it would return 72 artefacts, including 12 brass plaques known as Benin Bronzes, looted from Benin City by British soldiers in 1897 to the Nigerian government.

This Benin plaque is unique in that it is the only known representation of a female in the entire corpus of Benin plaques. Presumably the girl depicted was a royal personage, probably an attendant to ...

The British Museum deaccessioned several Benin bronze plaques between 1950 and 1972, several sold to Nigria, but others put on the open market or traded. https ...