What Christopher Hitchens Understood About the Parthenon
The British Museum should return the ancient treasures to Greece for the sake of art, not nationalism.
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Bronze Faces #1 Preview: It Belongs in a Museum… or Does It?
Check out a preview of Bronze Faces #1 from BOOM! Studios, where three friends plan the ultimate heist to reclaim stolen ...
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A museum's confession: Why we have looted objects
An exhibition at San Francisco's Asian Art Museum points to a burgeoning trend: museums are engaging the public more openly ...
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Will Looted Art Return Home in 2025?
Sculptures looted by British soldiers from the Kingdom ... that appear to be hindering the Benin Bronzes from coming home.” The American Museum of Natural History closed its Eastern Woodlands ...
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Benin’s mecca of spirits and gods draws tourists and followers with famed Voodoo festival
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Voodoo is often shrouded in mystery, or demonized. But at the annual Voodoo festival in Benin, tourists are ...
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As restitutions slow across Europe, UK may be poised for progress
Across Europe, political upheaval is disrupting efforts to return colonial-era museum acquisitions to ... Among the first to pledge to restitute Benin bronzes to Nigeria, for instance, were ...
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Benin celebrates Vodun to reclaim cultural identity
Over the past few days, Gregorio Almeida, a filmmaker and educator from Brazil, has been exploring Benin. His journey has taken him from the Slave Museum in Ouidah to the Door of No Return ...
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ECOWAS condemns deadly attacks in Benin, expresses solidarity
The Economic Community of West African States has condemned the recent violent attacks in Northern Benin that claimed dozens of lives. The attacks occurred on Wednesday in the Point Trible area ...
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Militants inflict heavy losses on Benin’s armed forces in an attack in the north
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. COTONOU, Benin (AP) — Militants inflicted heavy losses on Benin’s armed forces during an attack this ...
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Benin suffers heavy losses in deadly border attack
Benin's military has suffered significant casualties in a deadly attack near the insurgency-hit borders with Niger and Burkina Faso, officials have confirmed. Colonel Faizou Gomina, chief of staff ...
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Beninese army suffers 'hard blow' in border attack
Benin forces have suffered heavy losses in an attack near the border with insurgency-hit Niger and Burkina Faso, authorities have said. Colonel Faizou Gomina, the national guard's chief of staff ...
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Benin army suffers heavy losses in northern attack
Jan 9 (Reuters) - Benin's armed forces have suffered heavy losses in an attack on one of their most well-equipped positions in the north, where troops are trying to curb cross-border assaults by ...