LAGOS, May 17 (Reuters) - At the National Museum in Lagos, workers carefully remove rust and patina from Igbo-Ukwu Bronze artefacts, part of restoration work on some of Nigeria's oldest but lesser ...
STORY: These workers are carefully scraping rust and patina off thousands-of-years-old Nigerian Bronze artifacts. But unlike the better-known Benin Bronzes, these cultural treasures are not scattered ...
Archaeomineralogical fieldwork in southeastern Nigeria combined with metallurgical analyses has now all but confirmed the local provenance of most of the metals used in manufacturing the bronze and ...
From Okey Sampson, UmuahiaFrontline entrepreneur and philanthropist, Chief Obinna Iyiegbu (Obi Cubana), has restated his ...