🇳🇬 Nigeria · Rock art
Tura Rock Inscriptions
Iron Age to Historic (500 BCE–19th c.) · Nok-derived / Bauchi hunters
Granite cliff with 300 inscriptions and cattle engravings (hunters' oath site).
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Archaeological wonder
Turunku
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.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Tell
Unj Goza Mound
Gajiganna to Kanem (1800 BCE–800 CE) · Gajiganna / Kanem-Bornu
Lake Chad basin tell 12 m high with Gajiganna sequence 1800 BCE–800 CE.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Rock art
Yankari Rock Shelters
Late Stone Age to Iron Age (4000 BCE–1500 CE) · Nok-related / Hausa
National park shelters with 12 iron furnaces and Shira rock paintings.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Ancient city
Zilum (Chad Basin Proto-city)
Iron Age Sahel / Nok contemporary (550–350 BCE) · Gajiganna culture
12-ha 550 BCE Gajiganna proto-city with 5-m ditch and early Sahelian iron furnace.