Nigeria: Bronze head of a queen, Benin Kingdom, 16th-18th centuries. The Benin Empire (1440–1897) was a pre-colonial African state in what is now modern Nigeria. It is not to be confused with the modern-day country called Benin (and formerly called Dahomey).

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