{"id":85665,"date":"2026-02-27T07:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T07:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=85665"},"modified":"2026-02-27T07:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T07:57:08","slug":"cambridge-university-transfers-ownership-of-116-benin-bronzes-to-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/27\/cambridge-university-transfers-ownership-of-116-benin-bronzes-to-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Cambridge University transfers ownership of 116 Benin bronzes to Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/2560\/cpsprodpb\/ee17\/live\/4bb51a50-06a0-11f1-8d5d-7d6caf00f484.jpg\" alt=\"Prince Aghatise Erediauwa (left) and Prof Nicholas Thomas (right) are photographed looking at the camera in a museum. Behind them are display cases with various sculptures.\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The University of Cambridge has handed over the legal title of 116 Benin bronzes in its collections to the Nigerian authorities. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.museumsassociation.org\/museums-journal\/news\/2026\/02\/cambridge-university-transfers-ownership-of-116-benin-bronzes-to-nigeria\/#\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>&nbsp; The University of Cambridge has handed over the legal title of 116 Benin bronzes in its collections to the Nigerian authorities&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/looted-Benin-artifacts.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85667,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85665\/revisions\/85667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}