Igbo-Ukwu — Wikipedia

Igbo-Ukwu (Igbo Ukwu, literally "Great Igbo") is a town in Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State, south-eastern Nigeria. The modern community is organised principally into the Obiuno, Ngo and Ihite quarters, with villages and wards within them. The town gives its name to the Igbo-Ukwu archaeological complex, one of the most important archaeological discoveries in West Africa. Excavations revealed extraordinarily elaborate copper and copper-alloy objects, pottery, textiles, ivory and more than 150,000 glass and stone beads. The principal deposits date broadly from the late first to...