It ended up at The Met in 1972. Credit: Greek Ministry of Culture The Metropolitan Museum of Art returned an ancient bronze griffin’s head to Greece after determining that the 7th-century BC artifact ...

The kingdom’s ruler, Oba Ovonramwen (Eweka I), was exiled ... They are the work of master craftsmen whose bronze artistry remains unparalleled in the world. The Benin Bronzes were never just ...

Metropolitan Museum of Art New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is returning a seventh-century B.C.E. bronze head of a griffin to Greece after new research revealed that it had been stolen in ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is returning a bronze griffin’s head from the seventh century BC to Greece after it was found to have been stolen from a museum there in the 1930s. The cast-bronze ...

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is returning a seventh-century B.C.E. bronze head of a griffin to Greece after new ...

They were the spoils of a British expedition to overthrow Oba Ovonramwen Nogbaisi (Overami). Nine hundred more of the bronzes remain in the collection of the British Museum. Eppo Bruins, the Dutch ...

“The OBA reaffirms its commitment to advancing policies that empower women, promote equal opportunities, and accelerate progress toward true gender equality,” OBA Leader Jarion Richardson said ...

Irabor made this known in a statement in Benin on Friday. “This decision was made by Ewuare II, Oba of Benin, due to their alleged anti-palace and rebellious activities against the Oba of Benin ...

By Graham Bowley The Metropolitan Museum of Art is returning to Greece the bronze head of a griffin, the mythological creature, after determining that the artifact from the 7th century B.C. was ...

Or, at any rate, his severed bronze head is. Having been “liberated” from his torso last June, the head of the man who ruled the British Empire from 1910 to 1936 turned up at an Australia Day ...