Follow this example' - Museum director Van Bommel hopes the Dutch example will be picked up around the world. Dutch museum removes 'priceless' Benin Bronzes for return to Nigeria (Photo ...

The artefact is a "Benin Bronze", a priceless cultural object looted from modern-day Nigeria more than 120 years ago, now being removed from display and returned to its rightful home. The ...

The Dutch museum has removed 113 Benin bronzes from display and is restoring them, ahead of shipping them back to Lagos in June. The bronzes were looted from the ancient Kingdom of Benin ...

Leiden (Netherlands) (AFP) – Clad in protective blue surgical gloves, a Dutch museum worker gingerly unhooks a precious decorative artefact before gently laying it down on a pillow and wrapping ...

The Dutch museum has removed 113 Benin bronzes from display and is restoring them, ahead of shipping them back to Lagos in June. The bronzes were looted from the ancient Kingdom of Benin, in ...