In 1500s Europe, masks were fashionable—and scandalous. Fingers started wagging when 16th-century European women began wearing masks to protect their skin and hide their identities.

As you enter the passage leading to the reception of the Centre for Blacks and African Arts and Civilisation (CBAAC), Broad Street, Lagos, the carved replica of the 16th-century Benin ivory mask ...

The skeletons of three 16th-century African slaves recovered from a mass grave in Mexico City are shedding new light on the early colonial-era slave trade.

Researchers have found the remains of African slaves in a 16 century Mexican graveyard, confirming accounts that slavery started in the New World soon after Europeans conquered Mexico, according ...

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that two bronze plaques that left the country under “unclear circumstances” and a life-like sculpted head will be returned to Nigeria.

KATHMANDU, DECEMBER 6. The Rubin Museum of Art has returned a circa 16th-century mask of the deity Bhairava to Nepal after receiving new evidence concerning its provenance.