The return of the Benin Bronzes, looted by British colonial forces in 1897, has become a rallying cry for Nigeria’s cultural restitution movement. Despite promises from Western institutions to return ...
The Netherlands says it will return more than 100 Benin Bronzes that British troops looted from Nigeria in the late 19th ...
Over 100 precious Benin Bronzes have been returned to Nigeria from a Dutch museum in a landmark repatriation agreement.
The Netherlands has agreed to return a collection of 119 artifacts to Nigeria, the latest objects to be sent back to their ...
Nigeria will receive 113 Benin Bronzes, originally looted by the British, from the Netherlands. The plaques, personal ornaments and figures, currently housed in the collection of Wereldmuseum Leiden, ...
The Netherlands will return 119 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, nearly 130 years after they were looted by British soldiers and ...
The artifacts were stolen by British soldiers in the late 19th century and eventually made their way to a Dutch collection.
Netherlands has agreed to return 119 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria following a formal request from the Nigerian government, ...
It’s been described as the single largest return to date of the famous Benin antiquities looted by the British military.
The Netherlands say over a 100 Benin Bronzes that were plundered from Nigeria by British troops in the 1800s in museums will ...
It is the latest example of a country announcing that it will repatriate a group of these objects, which were looted by the ...