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🇳🇬 Nigeria · Archaeological wonder
Iron Age Nok Culture (500 BCE–500 CE; iron from 550 BCE) · Nok Culture
Turunku in Kaduna's Nok Valley is a Nok Culture iron-smelting precinct and terracotta site, 500 BCE–500 CE, revealing sub-Saharan Africa's earliest iron (c.