UK museums in Scotland, Cambridge and London have recently agreed to return Benin Bronzes. Also returns from collections in the US and France. Nigeria have a new museum in the works to house them. The British Museum is still looking the other way. Good to see the tide slowly turning.
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The British Museum press release and some images
The project has previously worked on preserving the world’s oldest bridge whilst training local archaeologists, partly in response to damage caused by Daesh: https://www.britishmuseum.org/blog/worlds-oldest-bridge-being-preserved-iraq