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.
走近位於奈及利亞南部埃多(Edo)州的貝南市國家博物館(Benin City National Museum)——油漆剝落,草坪風化,滯留在繁忙的環島上——沒有任何可信的跡象表明裏面有珍寶。但一旦你走出熙熙攘攘的車流,走進它的長廊,一個早已敗亡的王國的雄偉壯麗就會栩栩如生。
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