The museum had sought to transfer ownership of 30 historic bronzes, originally plundered in a bloody colonial raid, to ...

Now, head south over France and into Africa ... This 16th century brass statue shows a soldier. Europeans in Benin art were often shown holding a gun. The craft workers of Benin often showed ...

The bronzes-intricate castings and sculptures looted by British soldiers during their 1897 sacking of the Kingdom of ...

its head said. Nigeria is on a quest to recover thousands of intricate bronze sculptures and castings that were looted by British soldiers during a raid on the then-separate Kingdom of Benin ...