Benin was a large and varied kingdom. Some people lived in ... The first great Queen Mother or 'Iyoba' was Queen Idia, the mother of Oba Esigie. She helped her son gain control of the River ...

That, he says, was an homage to the beloved wartime Queen Idia of the middle-aged Benin Kingdom. An important bronze bust of her head was taken by the British in 1897 and still remains in the ...

The film restores the agency of the objects at the heart of the Dahomey restitution case by transforming them into a living ...

Boris Johnson has said Queen Elizabeth II had bone cancer, but a relative heard another account of her health problems.

across the length and breadth of Benin Kingdom to immediately place curse(s) on those who are hiding under cultism to kill themselves in parts of Benin City which have consumed the lives of ...

"Her doctors were worried that at any time she could enter a sharp decline," the former prime minister writes about the late Queen in his memoir 'Unleashed' Janine Henni is a Royals Staff Writer ...

250 B.C. King Arakamani relocates the royal necropolis from near Napata to Meroë, which becomes the kingdom’s spiritual and political capital. 1st Century A.D. Queen Amanirenas leads her troops ...

During colonial rule in Africa, thousands of cultural artefacts were plundered. African countries want them back and major museums across Europe have agreed to loan the famous Benin Bronzes back ...

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 ...