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Curious places in Nigeria
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archaeologyKaduna
2,500-Year-Old Iron Age Portraits2,500-year-old fired clay sculptures with elaborate hairstyles and piercing eyes. Sub-Saharan Africa's earliest known figurative art. The Nok people smelted iron independently, yet vanished around 200 CE leaving no written records.
GeneticsOyo State
50,000-Year-Old Ghost in DNADNA analysis of West African populations reveals traces of an unknown human species that interbred with our ancestors around 50,000 years ago. We have no bones, no tools, no fossils, just genetic echoes of a ghost lineage that may have been as different from us as Neanderthals were.
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