Facts, fictions, over “illegal Nok terracotta excavations” in Nigeria.

Between a professional group of Nigerian archaeologists and the country’ s museum authority, National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM), there is a recurring controversy over “illegal excavations by Germans” in the Nok terracotta buoyant part of the country.

  But a source from the NCMM says the archaeologists are raising false alarm. In fact, the commission, according to the source is set to prove its transparency.

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