After a fragment was found in 1943 and dated to 500 B.C., the Nok terra-cotta sculptures shook up the Eurocentric academic consensus that no advanced cultures existed in sub-Saharan Africa that early.

African Nok terracotta sculptures have been inspiring contemporary ceramic artists around the world. These ancient artifacts, ...

"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 ...

Nigeria and the US is deploying a digital technology to track Nok artefacts and curb international trafficking of these ...

In a major push to reclaim, protect, and project one of Africa's oldest civilisations, Nigeria and the United States have launched a technology-driven heritage preservation initiative that will ...

See more: To see the image this article refers to, keep checking Picture of the Day on our news blog Short Sharp Science IF THEY exist at all, most unglazed clay objects from ancient times are now ...

OFFICIAL HANDING OVER – FROM LEFT: FRENCH AMBASSADOR, MR JACQUES CHAMPAGNE DE LABRIOLLE; MINISTER OF TOURISM, CULTURE AND NATIONAL ORIENTATION, CHIEF EDEM DUKE. Five terracotta sculptures smuggled out ...

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 ...

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 ...