Archaeologists working at an excavation site in central Nigeria have discovered terracotta pottery pieces, some of which are as old as 3500 years. The pottery pieces show direct evidence that the pods ...

"A joint research programme by Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany & National Commission for Museums and Monuments Abuja, Nigeria." "The German edition was published in 2013 in conjunction with the ...

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The exhibition was entitled Coming to China. But it dwelt on the Qin Dynasty of China which has a link with the Nok Terracotta cultures in Nigeria. Explored by an artist, Uzoma Samuel Anyanwu and ...

This news release is available in German. However, the study of the Nok Culture, which is the source of the oldest figurative art in sub-Saharan Africa at 2000 to 3000 years old, will not be able to ...

Julie Dunne received funding from the DFG, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft for the financial funding of this project (BR 1459/7 and NE 408/5) Considerable historical and ethnographic literature across ...

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