The Museum of Fine Arts will close its Benin Kingdom Gallery on April 28, the museum announced Tuesday. The gallery opened in 2013 after the MFA accepted works lent from the collection of Robert Owen ...

At a ceremony Friday in New York City, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts returned two works of art that were stolen from present-day Nigeria more than a century ago. Commemorative head, 16th–17th century.

The Benin Kingdom is one of the most long lasting and flourishing monarchies in the world but it started from somewhere. The first king of the Benin kingdom was Eweka 1, son of the Yoruba prince ...

He has five wives, a $500,000 Rolls Royce — and is trying to get back $30 billion in artworks stolen from his ancestors 135 years ago, including some of the Met Museum’s most precious works. Oba ...

An historic event will happened in the land of the Igodomigodo today. The ancient Benin Kingdom, which used to be called Igodomigodo, will have a new Oba. The Crown Prince of the kingdom, Prince ...

Benin City, former capital of the ancient Benin Kingdom and present capital of Edo State, is home to many sacred places, historical monuments and things that will pass as folkores and fairy tales.

The Benin Kingdom representatives visited Ooni to invite him to attend the forthcoming Patriots Award event. This was affirmed by representatives of the Benin Kingdom who recently paid a courtesy ...

Digital Benin, the first digital platform to gather and offer in-depth information on artifacts from the Kingdom of Benin, is live. The initiative, launched by the Museum am Rothenbaum Kulturen und ...

The Benin bronzes are universally recognized as a towering achievement in the history of art. Artists of the once-mighty Kingdom of Benin, in present day Edo State, Nigeria, honed sophisticated ...