- The Benin Bronzes🔍
- Nigeria hails 'great day' as London museum signs over looted objects🔍
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- British museum agrees to return stolen Benin Bronzes to Nigeria🔍
- The Met ought to have returned two stolen Benin Bronzes years ago🔍
- What are the Benin bronzes? Smithsonian returns stolen art🔍
- US museums return trove of looted treasures to Nigeria🔍
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The story of Nigeria's stolen Benin Bronzes
The Benin Bronzes, Explained: Why a Group of Plundered Artworks ...
The Benin Bronzes are a group of thousands of objects that were taken from the kingdom of Benin, in what is now Nigeria, in 1897. (Their exact ...
Nigeria hails 'great day' as London museum signs over looted objects
The Horniman Museum in south-east London is returning 72 items, including so-called Benin Bronzes, to Nigerian ownership - making it the first ...
London's Horniman Museum Will Return Stolen Benin Bronzes to ...
London's Horniman Museum announced that it will return 72 artifacts to Nigeria that British troops looted in the 19th century.
British museum agrees to return stolen Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
A museum in London has decided to return a collection of treasures stolen in the 19th century to Nigeria. The items, including the famous ...
The Met ought to have returned two stolen Benin Bronzes years ago
In other words, they left Nigeria illegally – two among several Bronzes that were stolen from the National Museum after Nigerian independence in ...
What are the Benin bronzes? Smithsonian returns stolen art
Nigerians have called for the return of the looted bronzes for decades, with formalized repatriation requests being sent to museums in the U.K., ...
US museums return trove of looted treasures to Nigeria - CNN
The sculpture — the only Benin bronze in the museum's collection — was first acquired by a British merchant who worked in Nigeria and consigned ...
RISD Museum returns stolen Benin Bronze sculpture to Nigerian ...
11. The sculpture had been held by the museum since 1939 and was one of 31 looted artifacts, also called Benin Bronzes, repatriated to Nigeria ...
Benin Bronzes Looted by the British Returned to Nigeria - Artnet News
Hundreds of bronze artworks created under Nigeria's Benin Empire were looted by the British army during an 1897 raid.
The Benin bronze sculpture tradition is thought to have derived from or been influenced by that of the older nearby Kingdom of Ife in southwest Nigeria. While ...
Benin Bronzes | History, Age, Signficance, Repatriation - HistoryExtra
In August 2022, the Horniman museum in London announced it will return its collection of Benin Bronzes to Nigeria. It makes the Horniman the ...
Nigeria demands return of Benin Bronzes after British Museum thefts
Nigerian and Greek officials have demanded the return of treasures after reports that thousands of items were stolen from the British Museum ...
Cologne hands over stolen Benin Bronzes to Nigeria - DW
Nigeria has taken back ownership of 92 bronze sculptures that make up the so-called Benin Bronzes from a museum in the German city of Cologne, ...
London museum agrees to return stolen Nigerian artifacts, including ...
A square bronze pendant or ornament, one of the objects that London's Horniman Museum says was looted from Benin City by British soldiers in ...
Oxford and Cambridge Return Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
On Friday, 29 July 2022, the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge in England announced that they would return 213 stolen Benin Bronzes to ...
British museums may loan Nigeria bronzes that were stolen from ...
The Benin Bronzes were stolen in the looting that occurred during a punitive British expedition into what is now Nigeria.
How a New Nigerian Museum Can Help Repatriate the Benin Bronzes
For decades western museums justified their possession of the bronzes on the grounds that Nigerians lacked the resources, or could not be ...
What are “the Benin Bronzes” and where are they now?
The theft of these items from the Kingdom of Benin, in present-day southern Nigeria, is beyond dispute. In 1897, Britain launched a punitive ...
From Germany to Ireland, a fresh push to return the Benin Bronzes
Like all schoolchildren in Nigeria, he was taught of the murderous 1897 raid when British soldiers plundered Benin City, stealing a priceless ...
Returning the Benin Bronzes - YouTube
In 1897, during the violent sacking of Benin City by British armed forces, thousands of artefacts were removed and subsequently sold in ...