The Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, on Saturday started the burial ceremony of his mother, Iyoba Omo N’ Ikuoyemwen, Iyoba Ewuare II, with various traditional rites (Iwarinnwin). The News Agency of ...

The Dutch Embassy in Nigeria confirmed the planned return of the artifacts looted during the British invasion of the Benin ...

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

The Netherlands has agreed to return more than 100 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, the latest European country to return cultural artefacts to Africa, the Dutch embassy in Abuja said on Wednesday.

Nigeria is trying to find thousands of bronze sculptures and castings that were looted by British soldiers during a raid on ...

The Netherlands has revealed that over 100 Benin Bronzes that were plundered from Nigeria by British troops in the 1800s into a Dutch museum will be returned. These sculptures hold cultural ...

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

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Officials from the Italian province of Trentino announced the recent discovery of a "monumental necropolis" from the Iron Age ...

The Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II ... As the leader of the kingdom, the Oba is responsible for ensuring that the burial rites are performed according to traditional customs and protocols.

The archaeologists now think that the necropolis arose somewhere within a drier portion of the ancient city, and was constructed over the course of several burial phases during the Iron Age.