The presence of the skeleton, along with pottery artefacts and animal bones, that the team of archaeologists excavated from a hillock, locally called Padta Bet, point to the presence of a 5,200-year-old Harappan settlement that was 1.5 km from the mass burial ground of Juna Khatiya, an Early Harappan necropolis.
As part of efforts to protect invaluable cultural heritage sites across the region, the Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) hosted leading West African archaeologists and heritage experts for an inaugural seminar tagged “Futures of Archaeology: Archaeology and Heritage Management in West Africa Today – Challenges and Opportunities”, in Benin City, capital of Edo State. The […]