Nigeria's national museum commission will be responsible for retrieving and keeping priceless Benin Bronzes, taking on the ...
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Nigeria’s museum to oversee return of Benin bronzesWith the Oba’s consent, NCMM will now oversee conservation and negotiations for their return. Talks with Cambridge University ...
Nigeria's long-running effort to repatriate the Benin Bronzes-some of the most prized artifacts in African history-has taken ...
The Netherlands has announced that it will be returning 113 bronze statues, looted by Britain, to Nigeria. Other countries ...
The Netherlands has agreed to return a collection of 119 artifacts to Nigeria, the latest objects to be sent back to their ...
Nigeria's National Museum Commission is tasked with retrieving and preserving the Benin Bronzes, ancient artifacts looted in 1897. Despite ownership by the Oba of Benin, the commission manages the ...
The artifacts were stolen by British soldiers in the late 19th century and eventually made their way to a Dutch collection.
Officials say the returned artefacts will not go into the private collection of the Benin royals, as previously feared ...
The Netherlands says it will return more than 100 Benin Bronzes that British troops looted from Nigeria in the late 19th ...
They will be returned at the request of the Nigeria’s National Commission for Museums and Monuments. The artifacts include human and animal figures, plaques, royal regalia and a bell.
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