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    A brief description of the excavations at Igbo Ukwu and the casting process. Excavations undertaken in the 1930s and 1960s uncovered a remarkable array of over 700 artworks primarily cast in bronze, copper and copper-alloys, along with works of terracotta, and over 165,000 glass and carnelian beads, that were all deliberately interred with the remains of at least six individuals in three sites ...
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    Feb 19, 2023(9th-4th century BC) Over a period of three centuries, the fragmented local polities of upper Nubia gradually grew into larger chiefdoms, the biggest of which had its capital at el-Kurru in Sudan around the 10th-9th century BC from where it expanded into lower Nubia and 4th cataract region.
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    Sep 29, 2024Aerial photo of Gulfey, a fortified Kotoko town near Lake Chad established in the mid-2nd millennium CE. Another example is the celebrated art traditions of Igbo-Ukwu, Ife, Benin, and other societies in southwestern Nigeria, which are known to have begun in the 9th century of the common era, seemingly without precedent.. However, studies of the Nok neolithic culture (ca. 1500-1BC), whose ...
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    Mar 5, 2023The history of Jenne under the empires of Mali and Songhai (13th-16th century) From the 9th-13th century, the hinterland of Jenne fell under the political control of the empires of Ghana and Mali, the latter of which was the first to exercise any real control over the city. Jenne's status under Mali was rather ambiguous.
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    Covering over 64,000 sqm and built in the 3rd century BC, this enigmatic temple complex is perhaps the most impressive ruin from the kingdom of kush ... Built in the 9th century by King Georgios I of the nubian kingdom of makuria, this imposing 9.6m tall two-storey administrative building is one of the best preserved secular constructions from ...
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    This is an Amharic translation of the original Arabic work, both composed before the 19th century. Records of the Qāḍī court at Harar from the late 19th century. HISTORIGRAPHICAL DOCUMENTS FROM WEST AFRICA(Senegal, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Guinea) ... during the 9th century BC in the form of two scripts; the ...
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    3 days agoThese settlements begun at 10 ha site of Kolima Sud-Est, the 18ha site of Dia Shoma between 900-400BC, and the later site of Jenne-Jeno in the 3rd century BC. They all contain Tichitt-style pottery (called the Faıta Facies) in their earliest settlement phases, indicating a direct transfer/expansion of the Tichitt population to Mema.
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    Oct 6, 2024A brief background on the history of Meroe. The city of Meroe first appears in the historical records on the inscription of King Amannote-erike who ruled Kush during the second half of the 5th century BC in the Napatan period (named after Kush's old Royal city of Napata).. The inscription mentions that Amannote-erike was "among the royal kinsmen" when his predecessor King Talakhamani ...
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    Map of the tichitt neolithic sites of the 2nd millenium BC and the Inland Niger delta sites of the 1st millenium BC. The Tichitt neolithic tradition is arguably West Africa's first large-scale complex society, the 200,000 km2 polity was centered in the dhar tichitt and dhar walata escarpments and extended over the dhar tagant and dhar nema regions in what is now south-eastern Mauritania.
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    Sep 8, 2024The early history of Mombasa: 6th-16th century. The island of Mombasa was home to one of the oldest Swahili settlements on the East African coast. Excavations on Mombasa Island reveal that it was settled as early as the 6th-9th century by ironworking groups who used 'TT'/'TIW' ceramics characteristic of other Swahili settlements.
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