This brass plaque shows the Oba, or King, of Benin and his attendants. Why do you think the Oba is shown to be much bigger than the other people? The plaque is on display at the British Museum.

By Colin Moynihan and Tom Mashberg When it began displaying a group of finely crafted treasures from the Kingdom of Benin in 2013, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, acknowledged that British ...

Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT Nigeria has also demanded that the British Museum hand over Benin Bronzes, metal plaques and sculptures that decorated the royal palace of what was then the ...

Fittingly, the MFA’s announcement cites ethical quandaries around the Benin artifacts. The museum said the means by which Lehman came into possession of many of these objects prompt questions about ...

had long presented the museum with a daunting ethical question: Many of the sculptures were forcibly taken during a bloody raid in 1897, when British troops sacked Benin City, plundering thousands ...