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Art dealers are sitting on looted African artefacts such as the Benin Bronzes worth hundreds of thousands of dollars that they’re struggling to sell. #africa #africantiktok #africanculture #africanhistory #artefact #artifact #benin #beninbronzes #colonialism #looted #stolenartifacts #lootedartifacts #art #museum #britishmuseum #benincity #artdealer #britishcolonialism #britishcolonization | Looted Artefacts From Africa Just Aren’t Selling These Days, Art Dealers Say
London’s Horniman Museum has pledged to return dozens of objects that were looted by the British army from the Kingdom of Benin, now part of modern-day #Nigeria. It could be the first time a UK government-funded institution has returned stolen artefacts from its collection of Benin Bronzes. #museum #colonialism #london #historytok #artefact | Dozens of stolen objects from this museum could be returned to Nigeria
#Cambodia lost thousands of cultural relics to looters, traffickers, and Western #art collectors during decades of conflict from the mid-1970s. Now the government is taking them back. #stolenart #artefact #blackmarket #smuggling #LearnOnTikTok
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