The Benin Bronzes, some of Africa’s greatest treasures ... An archivist’s note, written when the tusk was taken into the British Museum collection in 1897. It says the tusk came from ...

A group of Benin Bronzes on display in the Wereldmuseum. The objects are (from left to rigth): a worked elephant tusk, Benin (1500-1891); a head of a prince (oba), Benin (1600-1750); a statue of a ...

Read more about the Benin Bronzes—and recent calls ... Benin objects in its collections, including two bronzes and a carved ivory tusk. Per the Art Newspaper, Christine Mullen Kreamer, deputy ...

Clad in protective blue surgical gloves, a Dutch museum worker gingerly unhooks a precious decorative artefact before gently ...

Montreal’s collection includes three bronze and brass pieces that typify Benin artistry ... also includes a ceremonial carved ivory tusk that would have been placed with a commemorative head ...

the Benin Bronzes have been languishing in museums all over the world for almost 125 years. Increasingly, however, heritage experts believe they should be returned to their place of origin.

The statue is a Benin Bronze, part of a collection of artifacts stolen from the Kingdom of Benin in modern-day Nigeria by British soldiers in 1897. Many of the other Benin Bronzes are on display ...

New provenance research proves the precious objects were looted by the British during a brutal military campaign in 1897. Employees open a glass case containing some of the 113 Benin Bronzes that ...

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 ...

An curved arrow pointing right. In the past few years, Europe and the United States have been returning stolen bronzes from the historical Kingdom of Benin. While today's Benin Bronze casters ...

Because many of the sculptures had been originally plundered in a bloody British raid in 1897, the MFA subsequently sought a deal to transfer title to the Kingdom of Benin in exchange for a long ...

The bronge princess is included in an exhibit of Benin ivory and bronze works at the Museum until ... current exhibit include a six foot elephant tusk, carved in relief with richly dressed figures ...