The Kingdom of Benin was located in what is now ... intricate art cast in bronze and ivory. This is a Benin bronze. It was cast by one of the Oba’s metalworkers to decorate the pillars of ...

Step 3 – make bronze by melting down the copper manilla ... with Prince Oranmiyan when he arrived to found the kingdom of Benin. The mask was worn by a dancer in the Ododua ceremony to celebrate ...

An curved arrow pointing right. In the past few years, Europe and the United States have been returning stolen bronzes from the historical Kingdom of Benin. While today's Benin Bronze casters ...

The soldiers, disappointed not to find any of the kingdom’s legendary treasure, raised a French flag and drank Béhanzin’s gin ...

The Bronzes, thousands of metal sculptures and ivory carvings, were seized from the West African kingdom of Benin ... its museum would give back a Benin Bronze head "unconditionally".