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Where in the world
Nigeria
The site
Ile-Ife is a Yoruba city in Nigeria, a centre of the Ife-Benin cultural world occupied between about 1100 and 1500 CE. Regarded in Yoruba tradition as a founding city, it is renowned in archaeology for the naturalistic brass and terracotta heads produced by its artisans, works whose lifelike modelling stands among the great achievements of West African art.
Field notes
- civilizations
- Yoruba (Ife-Benin)
- types
- City
- occupied
- 1,100 CE — 1,500 CE
- country
- Nigeria
- elevation
- 280 m above sea level
Notable finds
Renowned pieces unearthed at Ile Ife — and where they are today
Figures of this place
Laid to rest, born or died at Ile Ife
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