Arts + Culture
The golden rhinoceros of Mapungubwe: a small treasure from a lost African kingdom
The golden rhinoceros, found in a royal grave on Mapungubwe Hill in South Africa in 1933, is a…
archaeology
Arts + Culture
Nok terracottas: the ancient Nigerian sculptures found by tin miners
The Nok culture of central Nigeria produced some of the oldest known figurative sculpture in sub-Saharan Africa, terracotta…