Over 100 precious Benin Bronzes have been returned to Nigeria from a Dutch museum in a landmark repatriation agreement.

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 ...

Last Tuesday, The Netherlands signed an agreement with Nigeria to return some 119 Benin Bronzes looted in 1897 when the British sacked the Kingdom of Benin in present day Nigeria. Some of the ...

The Netherlands has become the latest country to agree to return the Benin Bronzes, works of art looted by the British from the Kingdom of Benin, in present-day Nigeria, in 1897. The Dutch ...

The Netherlands has agreed to return its share of the Benin Bronzes. The 119 statues have been mostly housed in Leiden and will now be given to the Nigeria’s National Commission for Museums and ...

The artifacts were stolen by British soldiers in the late 19th century and eventually made their way to a Dutch collection.

In recent years, about 1,100 objects from German, Scottish, British, and French museums have been returned amid pressure over ...

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 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 of ...

The Netherlands says it will return more than 100 Benin Bronzes that British troops looted from Nigeria in the late 19th Century and which ended up in a Dutch museum. Thousands of these culturally ...