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Newser on MSNStolen Benin Bronzes Are Headed HomeT he Netherlands says it will return more than 100 artifacts looted from the Kingdom of Benin, in what is now southern ...
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 ...
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The Black Wall Street Times on MSNNigeria receives 100+ Benin Bronze artifacts a century laterNigeria is expected to receive over 100 Benin Bronze artifacts that were stolen ... is returning hundreds of the artifacts ...
This brass figure is believed to be Prince Oranmiyan. 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.
“And yet, the people of Benin obtained the brass ... cast plaques depicting animals, humans and other objects. They were created from at least the 1500s onwards in the West African Kingdom ...
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