In the 1100s the Ogisos lost control of their kingdom ... its largest size. Benin City is at least four miles wide. The city has wide, straight roads, lined by houses. The houses are large ...

In February 1897, British forces invaded the Kingdom of Benin ... formally requested that “all the cultural property belonging to the Oba of Benin illegally taken away by the British in 1897 ...

In March 2023, then-president Muhammadu Buhari signed a decree saying the Oba, or king, of the historic kingdom ... establish the Benin Royal Museum, which would eventually house some of the ...

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 ...