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Eazy Travels & Tours: 6 African Artifacts You Will Find Overseas

The Benin Bronzes are a collection of brass plaques that adorned the royal palace of the Oba, Ovonramwen Nogbaisi, in the Kingdom of Benin, Nigeria between the 13th and 18th centuries. They were stolen by British forces from the Kingdom of Benin in what is now modern-day Nigeria.

After their theft in 1897, and though roughly half of them became the property of the British Museum, many were purchased by museums in Austria, Germany, and the United States. Some also ended up in private collections; renowned Spanish painter Pablo Picasso supposedly owned one.