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Ancient Benin Stock Photos

Browse 286 ancient benin photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more photos and images.

Woman tries to photograph with a smarthpone an anthropo-zoomorphic statues depicting King Glele and King Behanzin during an exhibition of returned...

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Benin, Cotonou, Stealing - Crime

Male Warrior, 1455–1640, Nigeria, Lower Niger River region, Lower Niger Bronze Industry, Brass, clay, teeth, glass beads , H. 12 3/4 in. ,...

Figure: Male Warrior.

Benin, Ancient, Bead

Visitors stand to view artefacts looted by French colonial soldiers returned and displayed for viewing by the general public during an exhibition at...

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The Head of a the king Oba of Benin, a returned artefacts from the "Benin Bronzes" collection are displayed at the signing ceremony and handover of...

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The Head of a the king Oba of Benin, a returned artefacts from the "Benin Bronzes" collection is displayed at the signing ceremony and handover of...

NIGERIA-CULTURE-ARTS-NETHERLANDS

Benin, Antiquities

Visitor takes photos of the contentious Benin plaques exhibit at the British Museum in London. The museum, one of London's top tourist attractions,...

British Museum In London

Benin, British Museum, Museum

Visitors sit before the contentious Benin plaques exhibit at the British Museum in London. The museum, one of London's top tourist attractions, is...

British Museum In London

Benin, Museum, British Museum

Germany Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock sit next to Nigeria Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama , as they speak in Abuja on...

NIGERIA-GERMANY-ART-DIPLOMACY

Benin, Nigeria, Germany

National Museum exhibition officer adjust the Head of a the king Oba of Benin , the Bird of Prophecy , the Statue of a Leopard , and the Carved...

NIGERIA-CULTURE-ARTS-NETHERLANDS

This December 20, 2022 image taken at the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Abuja shows Benin bronze artefacts, part of some of the housands of...

NIGERIA-GERMANY-ART-DIPLOMACY

Germany, Antiquities, Museum

This December 20, 2022 image taken at the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Abuja shows a Benin bronze artefact, part of some of the thousands...

NIGERIA-GERMANY-ART-DIPLOMACY

Benin, Nigeria, Antiquities

This December 20, 2022 image taken at the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Abuja shows a Benin bronze artefact, part of some of the housands...

NIGERIA-GERMANY-ART-DIPLOMACY

Germany, Benin, Antiquities

Royalist supporters dance and parade during the coronation ceremony of the newly crowned 40th Monarch of the Benin kingdom Oba Ewuare II in Benin...

NIGERIA-SOCIETY-CULTURE

Nigeria, Traditional Clothing

Horn Player, 1550–1680, Nigeria, Court of Benin, Edo peoples, Brass, H. 24 13/16 x W. 11 9/16 x D. 6 3/4 in. , Metal-Sculpture, In the art of Benin,...

Figure: Horn Player.

Benin, Sculpture

This December 20, 2022 image taken at the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Abuja shows Benin bronze artefacts, some of the housands of 16th to...

NIGERIA-GERMANY-ART-DIPLOMACY

Benin, Nigeria, Museum

This December 20, 2022 image taken at the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Abuja shows Benin bronze artefacts, part of some of the housands of...

NIGERIA-GERMANY-ART-DIPLOMACY

Benin, Museum, Antiquities

This December 20, 2022 image taken at the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Abuja shows a Benin bronze artefact, part of some of the housands...

NIGERIA-GERMANY-ART-DIPLOMACY

Benin, Germany, Looting

The king, known as Oba of Benin, Omo n'Oba N'Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Ewuare II, displays a document signed for the repartriation to the ancient kingdom...

NIGERIA-BRITAIN-HISTORY-ARTS-ROYAL

Newly crowned 40th Monarch of the Benin kingdom Oba Ewuare II walks to perform a rite during his coronation in Benin City, midwest Nigeria, on...

NIGERIA-SOCIETY-CULTURE

Palace aide kneels down before newly crowned 40th Monarch of the Benin kingdom Oba Ewuare II on a wooden bridge during a rite to mark his coronation...

NIGERIA-SOCIETY-CULTURE

Benin, Palace, Nigeria

Newly crowned 40th Oba, or king, of the Benin kingdom, Oba Ewuare II , walks on a wooden bridge assisted by palace aides to perform the rite during...

NIGERIA-SOCIETY-CULTURE

Oba Uhumwelao, commemorative brass head of the king, Benin, 18th century. Paris, Musée Du Quai Branly

Benin, Antiquities

National Museum exhibition officers adjust the Head of a the king Oba of Benin , the Bird of Prophecy , the Statue of a Leopard , and the Carved...

NIGERIA-CULTURE-ARTS-NETHERLANDS

The Head of a the king Oba of Benin , and the Bird of Prophecy , both returned artefacts from the "Benin Bronzes" collection are displayed at the...

NIGERIA-CULTURE-ARTS-NETHERLANDS

This December 20, 2022 image taken at the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Abuja shows a Benin bronze artefact, part of some of the housands...

NIGERIA-GERMANY-ART-DIPLOMACY

This December 20, 2022 image taken at the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Abuja shows Benin bronze artefacts, part of some of the housands of...

NIGERIA-GERMANY-ART-DIPLOMACY

Benin, Antiquities, Museum

This December 20, 2022 image taken at the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Abuja shows a Benin bronze artefact, part of some of the housands...

NIGERIA-GERMANY-ART-DIPLOMACY

Nigeria Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama gestures in Abuja on December 20, 2022 at the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs during the...

NIGERIA-GERMANY-ART-DIPLOMACY

Germany Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock speaks in Abuja on December 20, 2022 to at the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs during the...

NIGERIA-GERMANY-ART-DIPLOMACY

Annalena Baerbock, Benin

Students take photographs of the artefacts looted by French colonial soldiers returned and displayed for viewing by the general public during an...

BENIN-FRANCE-POLITICS-HISTORY-ART

People look at a statue with lion's head representing King Glele and the statue with a man's head and shark's body representing King Behanzin during...

BENIN-FRANCE-POLITICS-ART-DIPLOMACY

Antiquities, Benin, France

Detail of the contentious Benin plaques exhibit at the British Museum in London. The museum, one of London's top tourist attractions, is rarely far...

British Museum In London

Benin, British Museum, Antiquities

Royalist supporters blow in sculpt elephant tusks during the coronation ceremony of the newly crowned 40th Monarch of the Benin kingdom Oba Ewuare II...

NIGERIA-SOCIETY-CULTURE

Royalist supporter blows in a sculpt elephant tusk during the coronation ceremony of the newly crowned 40th Monarch of the Benin kingdom Oba Ewuare...

NIGERIA-SOCIETY-CULTURE

Royalist supporters look on during the coronation ceremony of the newly crowned 40th Monarch of the Benin kingdom Oba Ewuare II in Benin City,...

NIGERIA-SOCIETY-CULTURE

Royalist supporters dance and parade during the coronation ceremony of the newly crowned 40th Monarch of the Benin kingdom Oba Ewuare II in Benin...

NIGERIA-SOCIETY-CULTURE

Traditional Clothing, Nigeria, Benin

Newly crowned 40th Oba, or king, of the Benin kingdom, Oba Ewuare II , walks on a wooden bridge assisted by palace aides to perform the rite during...

NIGERIA-SOCIETY-CULTURE

Benin, Coronation, Palace

Wooden anthropomorphic statues, Benin.

Wooden anthropomorphic statues, Benin

PLAUCHEURThe Oba of Benin, Uku Akpolokpolo Erediauwa I, presides over a ceremony during which a British pensioner returned two bronze artefacts to...

NIGERIA-BRITAIN-HISTORY-ART-ROYALS

The Head of a the king Oba of Benin , the Bird of Prophecy , the Statue of a Leopard , and the Carved Elephant Tusk , all returned artefacts from the...

NIGERIA-CULTURE-ARTS-NETHERLANDS

The Bird of Prophecy a returned artefact from the "Benin Bronzes" collection is displayed at the signing ceremony and handover of the 119 Benin...

NIGERIA-CULTURE-ARTS-NETHERLANDS

Bonne Map of West Africa, Guinea, the Bight of Benin, Congo, Rigobert Bonne 1727 – 1794, one of the most important cartographers of the late 18th...

1770 Bonne Map of West Africa

Map, West Africa, Benin

Germany Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock holds on December 20, 2022 at the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Abuja a Benin bronze...

NIGERIA-GERMANY-ART-DIPLOMACY

Benin, Annalena Baerbock, Antiquities

Germany's Federal Governments Commissioner for Culture and the Media Claudia Roth Germany Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock is seen at the...

NIGERIA-GERMANY-ART-DIPLOMACY

Benin, Museum, Nigeria

This December 20, 2022 image taken at the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Abuja shows Benin bronze artefacts, part of some of the housands of...

NIGERIA-GERMANY-ART-DIPLOMACY

Benin, Germany, Antiquities

Germany Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock sit next to Nigeria Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama , as they speak in Abuja on...

NIGERIA-GERMANY-ART-DIPLOMACY

Giant 30-metre high bronze statue representing an Amazon is seen in central Cotonou on September 17, 2022 as a symbol of national identity and key...

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Giant 30-metre high bronze statue representing an Amazon is seen in central Cotonou on September 17, 2022 as a symbol of national identity and key...

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Picture taken on February 20, 2022 shows a tunic and trousers, which belonged to a soldier or Amazon from the kingdom of Dahomey, among the artefacts...

BENIN-FRANCE-POLITICS-HISTORY-ART

Kingdom of Dahomey, Cotonou, History

Picture taken on February 20, 2022 shows a traditional weaving loom, composed of a wooden frame and reed used for weaving and stitching clothes by...

BENIN-FRANCE-POLITICS-HISTORY-ART

Cotonou, Exhibition

Man in traditional wares photographs with smartphone the ceremonial throne of King Ghezo, one of the artefacts looted by French colonial soldiers...

BENIN-FRANCE-POLITICS-HISTORY-ART

People view artwork looted by the French colonoal soldiers displayed during an exhibition of returned seized Benin artefacts and exhibition of...

BENIN-FRANCE-POLITICS-ART-DIPLOMACY

Antiquities, Benin, France

People look at anthropo-zoomorphic statues depicting King Glele and King Behanzin during an exhibition of returned looted Benin artefacts and...

BENIN-FRANCE-POLITICS-ART-DIPLOMACY

Benin, France, Antiquities

The king, known as Oba of Benin, Omo n'Oba N'Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Ewuare II, signs documents for the repartriation to the ancient kingdom of looted...

NIGERIA-BRITAIN-HISTORY-ARTS-ROYAL

Visitors view the contentious Benin plaques exhibit at the British Museum in London. The museum, one of London's top tourist attractions, is rarely...

British Museum In London

Benin, British Museum, Antiquities

Fresco representing the emblems of Abomey Kings, along the ancient King Palace. The King Glele was confronted with the interventionism of the...

Benin Abomey In The Land Of Voodoo And The Last Kings Of Africa

Fresco representing a leg and a stone, the emblem of King Ago Liagbo, he was installed by the French people. Along the ancient King Palace. The King...

Benin Abomey In The Land Of Voodoo And The Last Kings Of Africa

benin map in retro vintage style - old textured paper - ancient benin stock illustrations

Benin map in retro vintage style - old textured paper

Discharge of a ship on the beach, Woodcut from 1892.

Dahomey, today Benin: discharge of a ship on the beach, Woodcut from 1892

Benin, Kingdom of Dahomey

Portrait of one of the ancient men in Yaka with a traditional smoking pipe. These people are the ones in charge of organising the circumcision...

Circumcision Ceremony in Benin