Nigeria Archive
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - If you haven't seen these remarkable ancient figures before, prepare yourself for a surprise. Credit: Thierry Joffroy - CRA-terre Hidden in the dense
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The University of Cambridge is supporting a claim for the return to Nigeria of 116 objects currently held in the University’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA) collections that were
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Some 2,500 years ago, a mysterious Nok Culture emerged in Nigeria. It was discovered in 1928, due to tin mining that was happening
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African Mythology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Among several powerful Yoruba deities (Orishas), there is Oshun, goddess of river, love, money, prosperity, fertility, and abundance. She is benevolent, very generous, and
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Yoruba peoples of South Western Africa are credited with one of Africa's oldest and finest art traditions. In the history of Ife
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Ancient Technology
AncientPages.com - Scientists have found evidence people in Sahara were familiar with glass technology centuries before the arrival of Europeans. During excavations at Igbo Olokun, located on the northern
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