FILE PHOTO: Director General, National Commission for Museums and Monuments, Nigeria (NCMM) Abba Isa Tijani looks at a Benin art object in the Linden Museum in Stuttgart, Germany, June 29, 2022. REUTERS/Louisa Off/File Photo
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany signed an agreement on Thursday to transfer ownership to Nigeria of the Benin Bronzes, among Africa's most culturally significant artefacts which were looted in the 19th century.
British soldiers took hundreds of bronzes - intricate sculptures and plaques dating back to the 13th century onwards - when they invaded the Kingdom of Benin, located in what is now southwestern Nigeria, in 1897.
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