Benin artists offer to swap newly made artworks with British Museum in return for looted bronzes

Benin artists offer to swap newly made artworks with British Museum in return for looted bronzes: A new guild of artists from Benin City, Edot State capital has offered to donate artworks to the British Museum in London as a way to encourage it to return the priceless Benin Bronzes that were looted from the city's royal court by British troops in 1897. Created in the once mighty Kingdom ...