Posted on 04/16/2007 7:03:39 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The highly revered historical sites of the Nok culture have been reduced to a shadow of the past as looters have invaded the fields... Frankfurt University, Prof. Peter Breunig... said the Nok terracotta and its cultural links was still among the greatest discoveries of archeology and would continue to command global attention... Breunig said the museum at the Nok village does not meet acceptable standards ''as it is only a table with bits of artifacts"... Speaking at the same session, the Director General of the National Commission for Museums and Monuments, Dr Joseph Eboreime, said the government had adopted a community-based approach to preserve artifacts.
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I hadn’t either.
Check with Don Imus and G.W. It their fault.
“I’m not knoking the article but I’d never heard of them before”
Oh, sure you have. They were the source of the original ‘nok, nok,” jokes which became the first recorded hate speech.
Try to keep up with the group if you wanna stay with the Graves and Glyphs bunch. :-)
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