In 1897, British troops invaded Benin City and looted thousands of objects from the kingdom’s treasury. Many objects Lehman purchased at public auction, according to the MFA, could be traced to that ...

Edo legend says that no one in Benin had ever seen a horse before Oranmiyan arrived! In the 1100s the Ogisos lost control of their kingdom ... Benin City is at least four miles wide.

Operatives of the Benin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, commenced investigation of ...

The royal leader of the Kingdom of Benin sought the return of artifacts displayed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The collector who owned them took them back instead. By Colin Moynihan and Tom ...

Meanwhile, in the south, notable kingdoms included the Yoruba empires of Ife and Oyo, the Benin Kingdom, the Ibibio-Efik Kingdom, and the Ijaw city-states of Nembe, Bonny, and Okrika. These ...

The Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston will close its Benin Kingdom Gallery on 28 April ... during a notoriously violent 1897 raid on Benin City in present-day Nigeria, during which British ...

For more than a decade, a collection of masterful works from the West African Kingdom of Benin have held ... when British troops sacked Benin City, plundering thousands of cast metal figures ...

Oba Esigie Created an empire and won land from the Kingdom of Ife. Oba Orhogbua During his reign, the empire reached its largest size. Benin City is at least four miles wide. The city has wide ...