China News Service, August 8th. According to a comprehensive report, on the 7th local time, the British Horniman Museum announced that it will return 72 cultural relics from the Kingdom of Benin to Nigeria.
According to reports, it includes several pieces of Benin copperware, a brass rooster, and a key to the royal palace.
The Horniman Museum said the items were obtained by force and the evidence was clear that it was "both ethical and appropriate" to return them to Nigeria.
According to the BBC, governments and museums across Europe have faced increasing political pressure in recent years to return looted cultural relics.
This year, the UK's Aberdeen University and Cambridge University Jesus College returned artifacts such as a rooster sculpture and a statue of the King of Benin to Nigeria.
Earlier, Nigeria and Germany signed an agreement to return 1,100 Benin cultural relics. German Foreign Minister Bell Burke said, "It is wrong to take away the bronzes, and it is wrong to keep them. This is the beginning of correcting the wrong."
In November last year, the French government reached an agreement with the West African Republic of Benin to return 26 cultural relics that France had seized from Benin during its colonial period in the 19th century.