New digital database reveals 483 Bronze Age sites in Anatolia, offering key insights into ancient settlements and regional ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

Historian Greg Jenner explores the Kingdom of Benin in this funny, family-friendly podcast perfect for KS2 kids and fans of ...

Sitting in his office in the Lagos space of Angels and Muse, the nonprofit art organization he founded in 2018, the Nigerian-American artist sounded like a proud son of the state where he was born.

The Benin Bronzes, taken from what is now Nigeria, have become a symbol in the effort to return looted artifacts to their ...

Benin City has grown from the historic Kingdom of Benin into a vibrant metropolis with the new Museum of West African Art.

Centuries after the Benin Empire mastered bronze casting, as Nigeria fights to reclaim its stolen bronzes, artists in Benin ...

Using long iron tongs, Victor Uinmwen Aduwe and Matthew Mathias pick a blazing pot from a fire and pour a thick golden liquid into a partly buried mould, using a centuries-old technique that still ...

The worldfamous Benin Bronzes in the British Museum are part of thousands of artefacts looted in 1897 by the British army in Benin City, the capital of the Kingdom of Benin, located in what is now ...

The Switzerland Ambassador to Nigeria, Chad, Niger and ECOWAS, Patrick Egloff, has affirmed that consultations on the restitution of repatriated Benin bronzes, looted during the 1897 British invasion ...