US returns 2 looted artefacts to Oba of Benin

The Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, has received two artefacts from the University of Iowa Museum, United States of America. The returned artefacts, a mother hen and a bronze plaque, were among the items looted from the Benin palace during the 1897 invasion of the Benin Kingdom by the British. While receiving the artefacts, [...]

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