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Stolen art that still hasn’t come back to their home countries
Due to the coming opening of the Humboldt Forum in Berlin, the institution is catching fire, since the government of Nigeria is officially demanding the return of the world-famous Benin bronzes, a group of a thousand metal plaques and sculptures that decorated the royal palace of the Kingdom of Benin, modern-day Nigeria, and are now scattered halfway around the world. Their way to Berlin is highly problematic: the centuries-old sculptures were stolen in 1897 by British soldiers who destroyed the old royal city in a punitive expedition . Later European dealers “bought” more pieces.