Image A pendant mask at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Items from the Benin Bronzes are in major museums and private collections.Credit...Andrea Mohin/The New York Times There’s one place ...

Despite the name, not all the statues are made of bronze. They include figurines, tusks, sculptures of Benin's rulers, and an ...

Metal workers in Benin made beautiful plaques, masks and statues for the Oba. These are often called 'Benin Bronzes', however most are actually made of brass rather than bronze. Narrator ...

Three of the other masks are in public collections in the UK and the USA The Benin Bronzes include not just metal objects but also wood and ivory, like this mask of Queen Mother Idia (uhunmwu-ekue ...

The Smithsonian Institution, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the German government announced they were returning scores of sculptures, plaques and ornaments, known as the Benin Bronzes ...

German government officials have handed over 20 Benin bronze objects to Nigeria as part ... Annalena Baerbock gave items such as a miniature mask of an Iyoba (queen mother) and the brass head ...

Its ruler, the oba, commissioned what would become known as the Benin bronzes: masks, three-dimensional figures, and bas-relief plaques. For the Edo-speaking people of Benin, these items were ...

Despite this, 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 ...

Why a digital record of the kingdom’s looted treasures marks a new era in the battle to reclaim its history ...