Image caption, Ivory carvers usually worked for the Oba ... At the moment, many museums still hold hundreds of pieces of Benin art. These artefacts are important to the people of modern-day ...

Benin art features people, animals and gods ... They took control of the African kingdoms and built their own empires. Image caption, Ivory carvers usually worked for the Oba, but they made ...

The objects, known as the Benin Bronzes and including reliefs, statues and ivory artefacts, are now scattered around the world. Some are at the British Museum in London and the Metropolitan Museum of ...