The world-famous Benin Bronze artworks created by African ... These rings were used as currency in the transatlantic slave trade. The Edo people in what is now modern-day Nigeria created the ...

One afternoon I grappled with Benin’s dark past — and the Python Temple’s resident reptiles. “People go to pray in the Catholic church,” explained my guide, Hyppolite. “Then they come ...

Some people lived in villages and small towns ... are symbols of the kingdom’s power and wealth through trade. Benin was famous for its craft workers. Specialists in a craft (like ivory-carvers ...