The Netherlands says it will return more than 100 Benin Bronzes that British troops looted from Nigeria in the late 19th ...

In recent years, about 1,100 objects from German, Scottish, British, and French museums have been returned amid pressure over ...

The Netherlands has agreed to return a collection of 119 artifacts to Nigeria, the latest objects to be sent back to their ...

Nigeria will receive 113 Benin Bronzes, originally looted by the British, from the Netherlands. The plaques, personal ornaments and figures, currently housed in the collection of Wereldmuseum Leiden, ...

Last Tuesday, The Netherlands signed an agreement with Nigeria to return some 119 Benin Bronzes looted in 1897 when the British sacked the Kingdom of Benin in present day Nigeria. Some of the ...

Over 100 precious Benin Bronzes have been returned to Nigeria from a Dutch museum in a landmark repatriation agreement.

The artifacts were stolen by British soldiers in the late 19th century and eventually made their way to a Dutch collection.

The Netherlands will return 119 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, nearly 130 years after they were looted by British soldiers and ...

It’s been described as the single largest return to date of the famous Benin antiquities looted by the British military.

It is the latest example of a country announcing that it will repatriate a group of these objects, which were looted by the ...

In 2022, Germany returned 1,030 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria. The same year, three US museums - the Smithsonian Institution's ...