masks and statues for the Oba. These are often called 'Benin Bronzes', however most are actually made of brass rather than bronze. Narrator: Hello, future people of the UK. I’d like to show you ...

Nigeria is expected to receive over 100 Benin Bronze artifacts that were stolen ... return of many of their cultural artifacts, including statues celebrating historical Nigerian officials.

it isn’t all of these statues that are made of bronze. Others were made of figurines, tusks, sculptures of Benin’s rulers, and an ivory mask, formed between the 15th and 19th Centuries.

The Netherlands has agreed to return 119 Benin bronze statues to Nigeria, the Dutch embassy in Abuja announced this week. It becomes the first European nation to do so after Germany. The majority ...

The Benin Bronzes are a collection of thousands of metal plaques and sculptures that decorated the royal palace of the Kingdom of Benin. Created between the 14th and 16th century, British soldiers ...

The sculpture is one of 26 artefacts returning to their homeland in present-day Benin after decades in a ... They are works of wood and bronze — emblems of military brawn and intricate ...

Nigeria is on a quest to get thousands of intricate bronze sculptures and castings that were looted by British soldiers during a raid on the then-separate Kingdom of Benin, located in what is now ...

Despite the name, not all the statues are made of bronze. They include figurines, tusks, sculptures of Benin's rulers, and an ivory mask. They were made during between the 15th and 19th Centuries.

The Netherlands has joined a growing list of European nations returning culturally significant artifacts to Africa; it has agreed to repatriate 113 stolen Benin bronzes to Nigeria. In a formal ...