The first female to be depicted was queen idia. The most recognizable em artfact from that collection is actually what's called the queen dea pedant mask. Some of these bronzes are worth up to four million each.
The world’s most illustrious museums are finally having to reckon with the stolen art in their collections.
Today’s show was produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.