Metcalf Jr. Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs, Jan Howard and Curator of Ancient ... the Benin Kingdom’s Palace in 1897, succeeded in returning his grandfather’s looted bronzes ...

Some museums have even returned objects to the countries of origin, setting a precedent for the return of the Benin bronzes. The third is political will. There has been a shift in political will in ...

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 ...

My 10th-grade English students at Brookline High School began with zero knowledge of the Benin bronzes — artifacts looted by British forces from the Kingdom of Benin in 1897. These pieces ...

Of the 34 pieces the MFA received, 32 were from the ancient Kingdom of Benin in ... about this much smaller collection of Benin bronzes,” Reed said. “We do know that several of these bronzes were ...

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, will return to Robert Owen Lehman twenty- seven Benin artefacts while keeping five of the ...

Benin Bronzes: 'My great-grandfather sculpted the looted treasures' Why slave descendants ... of pain for the descendants of those from the ancient Benin kingdom. This move may increase pressure ...

The Netherlands said Wednesday it was returning more than 100 'Benin Bronzes ... troops looted in the late 19th century and ended up in a Dutch museum. British soldiers stole the ancient ...