The Archaeological Association of Nigeria says that giant German construction company, Julius Berger, is aiding the illegal mining of Nok terracotta by some German Archaeologists in Kaduna State.

France has formally presented to Nigeria an artifact, a Terracotta figurative sculpture that was repatriated after it was intercepted in France while in transit from Togo to the United States in 2008.

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Archaeologists in Nigeria study the remains of little-understood civilisations. In this episode: the Nok civilisation produced fascinating terracotta figurines, rarely found in their original ...

NOK Art came to lime light in 1928, when Col. J. Dent Young found a small terracotta head amongst the gravels from tin mining operations near the village of Nok in the Jos Plateau of Central Nigeria.

A slim boundary divides these historic communities but African civilisation cum history is incomplete without the mention of an empire whose role in shaping a unique culture has been unfairly ignored ...