Leiden, Netherlands, May 20, 2025 (AFP) - Dutch museum removes 'priceless' Benin Bronzes for return to Nigeria

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2025-05-20

Clad in protective blue surgical gloves, a Dutch museum worker gingerly unhooks a precious decorative artefact before gently laying it down on a pillow and wrapping it in dozens of layers of special paper. The artefact is a "Benin Bronze", a priceless cultural object looted from modern-day Nigeria more than 120 years ago, now being removed from display and returned to its rightful home. The Wereldmuseum (World Museum) in Leiden is restoring 113 o......

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