500-year-old horn container discovered in South Africa sheds light on pre-colonial Khoisan medicines
In 2020, a chance discovery near the small South African hamlet of Misgund in the Eastern Cape unearthed an unusual parcel—a gift to science. The parcel turned out to be a 500-year-old cow horn, ...
Three U.S. museums have returned 31 bronzes looted from the pre-colonial African kingdom of Benin to the Nigerian National Collections in a ceremony held at the Smithsonian Institution. The looted ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Map of Africa (1722). Original from The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel Wikipedia Commons, ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Western education regularly overlooks these monarchs, but theGrio never will. Meet the African kings who deserve recognition. If ...
Itohan I. Osayimwese is the author of “Africa's Buildings: Architecture and the Displacement of Cultural Heritage.” (Photo by Christian Scully / Design Imaging Studios) This is your first of three ...
About 50 years after cultural leaders first requested their return, several Benin Bronzes are finally making their way home. Regarded as some of the most notable artworks to come out of West Africa, ...
500‑year‑old horn container discovered in South Africa sheds light on pre‑colonial Khoisan medicines
Both the Khoi and the San believed in a mythical animal, resembling a cow, whose horns were thought to have medicinal attributes. Rodger Smith In 2020, a chance discovery near the small South African ...
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