Photo: Joyofmuseums via Wikimedia Commons Dutch museums have at least 114 items stolen by British soldiers from the king’s palace in Benin City in 1897 in their collections, Trouw reported at the ...

which saw thousands of sculptures and cultural artefacts stolen during the destruction of Benin City (in present-day Nigeria). Many items ended up in museums or in private collections mainly found ...

The plaque is on display at the British Museum. Oba Ozolua Believed to have ... the empire reached its largest size. Benin City is at least four miles wide. The city has wide, straight roads ...

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