When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An ebony figurine, found in the Christian burial of a child, "shows a very detailed face and ...

A pair of irreplaceable bronze sculptures of two East African Benin leopards weighing at least 150kg each disappeared from the garden of a Claremont artefact collector. The collector, who wants to ...

Ancient unique finds in the South: Five tiny figurines – including heads of African figures carved in black wood – were uncovered in 1500-year-old graves of women and children during an archaeological ...

163 x 50 x 80 cm. (64.2 x 19.7 x 31.5 in.) ...

A tourist walks into a curio shop in Durban. Looking around at the exotica, he notices a very lifelike life-sized bronze statue of a rat. It has no price tag, but is so striking he decides he must ...

Across the world there are places to which people return time and again, sometimes over centuries, and leave behind tokens that speak to the purpose of their trips. The visitors may intend to honor ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Bronze sculpture is at home in the grounds and interiors of great houses — and for good reason. The grandeur of this ...

Standing in Igun Street, the centre of African bronze casting for the past 10 centuries, Alex Agbonmwenre could tell a story about the British forces that razed Edo and destroyed the Benin Empire, ...

NEW YORK, May 1 (UPI) --When North Korea set out to forge diplomatic ties in newly independent African countries in the 1970s, North Korean leader Kim Il Sung dispatched some unlikely envoys: artists, ...

A bronze figurine of an archer is among more than 200 artefacts from Sardinia, Cyprus and Crete that are being installed at Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum ahead of a new exhibition. The items, most of ...

A bronze statuette recovered from a river in Germany may have been part of an early Scandinavian weight system, some archaeologists believe. A small bronze figurine retrieved from the Tollense River ...