On a blue and yellow background, the graffiti artist retouches a spray-painted image of the half-man, half-shark statue of King Behanzin, one of the stolen treasures returned to Benin by France late ...

Research shows that it was four times longer than the Great Wall of China, and the material consumption for the construction of the Benin wall was far greater than the Great Pyramid of Cheops. Today, ...

Collectors may be interested in artefacts from the era, but the legacy of the Walls of Benin has largely been forgotten. Man-made wonders of the world such as the Taj Mahal in India, the Cairo Citadel ...

The Benin Empire was one of the oldest and most highly developed states in west Africa, dating back to the 11th century. The walls of Benin City and its surrounding kingdom were a man-made marvel ...

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