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The Igbo Ukwu Bronze Age: Nigeria's Ancient Lost City

The Igbo Ukwu Bronze Age: Nigeria's Ancient Lost City

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Long before Benin's famous bronzes, another civilization in what is now Nigeria was casting copper alloy masterpieces. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the Igbo Ukwu culture of the 9th century AD — a society that produced astonishingly sophisticated metalwork, engaged in long-distance trade across the Sahara and down the Niger River, and left behind one of the richest archaeological sites in West Africa. They discuss the discovery of Igbo Ukwu in 1939 by a farmer named Isaiah Anozie, the excavations led by Thurstan Shaw that revealed elaborate burial chambers, regalia, and over 700 bronze objects, and what the artifacts tell us about social hierarchy, ritual, and connections to the broader medieval world. They also consider the mysteries that remain: Who exactly were the Igbo Ukwu people? Did they develop bronze casting independently, or was the technology imported? And how does this ancient kingdom fit into the larger story of Nigeria's precolonial civilizations? #IgboUkwu #NigerianHistory #BronzeAgeAfrica #ThurstanShaw #IsaiahAnozie #WestAfrica #MedievalAfrica #Archaeology #BronzeCasting #SaharanTrade #NigerRiver #9thCentury #EzeNri #Igbo #Precolonial #AncientCivilizations #History #FexingoHistory Fexingo founder and producer: Ibnul Jaif Farabi Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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