Approaching the Benin City National Museum in Nigeria’s southern state of Edo — paint peeling, lawns weathered, stranded within a busy roundabout — there is no credible hint of the treasures inside. But once you step into its galleries, away from the heaving traffic, the grandeur of a defeated kingdom comes strikingly, painfully, to life.
走近位于尼日利亚南部埃多(Edo)州的贝宁市国家博物馆(Benin City National Museum)——油漆剥落,草坪风化,滞留在繁忙的环岛上——没有任何可信的迹象表明里面有珍宝。但一旦你走出熙熙攘攘的车流,走进它的长廊,一个早已败亡的王国的雄伟壮丽就会栩栩如生。
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