🇳🇪 Niger · Ancient city
Azelik (Takadda)
Medieval (10th–16th c) · Tuareg / Songhai / Hausa copper miners
15-km 600-furnace copper metropolis visited by Ibn Battuta 1353 with Kufic mosque 20 m.
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🇳🇪 Niger · Ancient city
Medieval (10th–16th c) · Tuareg / Songhai / Hausa copper miners
15-km 600-furnace copper metropolis visited by Ibn Battuta 1353 with Kufic mosque 20 m.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Ancient 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.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Rock art
Late Stone Age to Iron Age (4000 BCE–1500 CE) · Nok-related / Hausa
National park shelters with 12 iron furnaces and Shira rock paintings.