A little more than a week from today, the Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) in Benin City, Nigeria, will open its MOWAA Institute, the first building to be finished of a planned 15-acre campus that will also include a contemporary art exhibition space (the Rainforest gallery), among other facilities. The complex is expected to be completed in 2028. In advance of the opening, Antiquity magazine has published an updated report on pre-construction archeological investigations conducted at the Institute’s building site and that of the Rainforest gallery. Running from 2022 to 2024, the MOWAA Archeological Project was a collaboration among...