An engraved map of Dahomey and its environs, from the 1793 The History of Dahomey by slave trader and historian Archibald Dalzel. The Stapleton Collection / Bridgeman Images In West Africa ...

Dahomey contained a vast complex of royal palaces. The kingdom also had a unique and distinctive canon of art and architecture. Learn more in Africa's Great Civilizations with Henry Louis Gates ...

the Africa Narrative Change Film Award, to Dahomey, a documentary that follows 26 royal treasures of the Kingdom of Dahomey as they leave Paris to return to their country of origin in the present ...

More information: Ron Lawrence Anderson et al, An African Art Re-Discovered: New Revelations on Sword Manufacture in Dahomey, Heritage (2025). DOI: 10.3390/heritage8020062 ...

New research shows that swords forged in the West African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 19th century were made by local craftspeople and not imported from Europe, as some experts had speculated.

with the mails from the West Coast of Africa, arrived at Liverpool Feb. 11. Another of those horrible massacres, which are a disgrace to humanity, had taken place at Dahomey. The West African ...

The 26 artifacts were among thousands taken by French colonial troops in the late 19th century from the kingdom of Dahomey, which is now the Republic of Benin in West Africa. The loot was ...

Surprisingly, it belongs to a 19th-century statue in a shipping crate on its way back to west Africa. The figure of King Ghezo, a former ruler of the Kingdom of Dahomey (in present-day Benin), was ...

“Dahomey” and “Sugarcane” will vie against films including the celeb-powered “Will & Harper,” a Netflix release about a road trip by Will Ferrell and former “SNL” writer Harper ...

Dahomey, released in France this week, tells the story of 26 artefacts stolen by 19th-century French troops from the former African kingdom of the same name, including a throne and sculptures ...