igbobabe02:
This thread highlights the problems with Africans. Instead of building a museum with our ancient, precious artifacts to attract revenue for tourists, we sell them for peanuts. Think long term for a second. Your children and great grand children will have to travel to foreign countries to look at art their ancestors made because their family before them sold them off. We don’t value anything. Sad!

Is like you don't know the country you are living in.
Which museum in Nigeria will leave precious Artefacts on display for tourists when they can likely sell them for millions and replace them with fake ones instead? The museum owners will end up being the profiteers of Op discovery.

Many people don't understand how corrupt this country is yet.

sparkle6:

Bro thats worth milas o.
Make a video of it and send to BBC AND CNN, upload to youtube also. They would come for it. Na money be that o. Use your head bro. Make sure na u own that land.
Igbo ukwu artifact remenants. Big cash bro.
Lalasticlala show na. Lalasticlala this is something better than snake o.

I agree with you.

This is worth millions.

Everyone here talking about money. Very few people talking about archaeological investigations in and around the area of the finds. Few people talking about dating the finds, establishing connections (or lack thereof) between these finds and the finds at Igbo-Ukwu and Ezira. Few people talking about how this could help fill one of the many gaps in our knowledge of early Igbo history.

SMH.

BORNTOSUCKPUSSY:
real warrior that sold his ppl and kwara state to fulani making them enternal slaves Lol you afonjas mke me laff....if you are an aboki then ur case is worse a rag tag underfed and drug infested boko haram has hold you hostage for 10 years now taking ur sisters as sex slaves to satisfy shekau groins yearly ...yet you brave warriors are waiting for southerners to come fight for u

Lol. You mean like the way herdsmen have done to you or like what em Obj and Gowon did your people? dont even go there. The world is aware of their cowardoce of both Igbp's greatest warriors. Beat their chests, then flee and let their senseless followers to die in mass

igbobabe02:
This thread highlights the problems with Africans. Instead of building a museum with our ancient, precious artifacts to attract revenue for tourists, we sell them for peanuts. Think long term for a second. Your children and great grand children will have to travel to foreign countries to look at art their ancestors made because their family before them sold them off. We don’t value anything. Sad!

You guys are all the same: both the one preferring foreign buyers and the ones blaming/de-markering Africa.
Your kinds are currently destroying the continent

The root cause is Inferiority Complex

1stbest:


How can i contact the Sotheby's auction house

Check your mail/contact me via NL. Don't be rushing to sell anything...you may regret it for the rest of your life. The one that looks like a bell...keep that...don't try to clean it. Will go a museum here today/tomorrow that have African artifacts and give you a feedback on what to do next. Again....do not disclose the site...or your findings.

1stbest:
Who have an idea what it is, we ask some elders at my side they said they don't know. we dig it out when digging a pit. Any idea?

what material is it pls

1stbest:
How can i contact the Sotheby's auction house

Their phone number is the +44 (0) 20 7293 5000 and email address is enquiries@sothebys.com. Reach out to them with the photos.

1stbest:
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Reach out to the guys at

http://ukpuru..com/

They may have answers.

1stbest:
Who have an idea what it is, we ask some elders at my side they said they don't know. we dig it out when digging a pit. Any idea?

Hi 1stbest,

I am in contact with the Director of the Institute of African Studies of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. I shared these pictures and the Institute is interested in coming down to the location.

Can you please send me a mail here: uchennajide@gmail.com

or drop your mail or phone number so I can reach you and discuss things like the exact location of these finds and how one might get there, etc.

Thank you.

Hi,

Can you reach out to chiemelamgbeahuru@bbc.co.uk, he’s a journalist from the BBC and his interested in verifying your story about the items.

SilasNwude:
gbam

Is this babalawo?

Let see how we can carbon date it . Holla...

RedboneSmith:
Everyone here talking about money. Very few people talking about archaeological investigations in and around the area of the finds. Few people talking about dating the finds, establishing connections (or lack thereof) between these finds and the finds at Igbo-Ukwu and Ezira. Few people talking about how this could help fill one of the many gaps in our knowledge of early Igbo history.

SMH.

Do you still wonder why we are where we are as a country? If you ask they will say "we have bad leaders".

pelicanbeau:
Call on a museum to come and buy them only that they are cut and damaged. The spirits in them may not be potent again

Nice moniker, nicer face and figure

1stbest:
Who have an idea what it is, we ask some elders at my side they said they don't know. we dig it out when digging a pit. Any idea?

Is it bronze or terracotta?

RedboneSmith:
Everyone here talking about money. Very few people talking about archaeological investigations in and around the area of the finds. Few people talking about dating the finds, establishing connections (or lack thereof) between these finds and the finds at Igbo-Ukwu and Ezira. Few people talking about how this could help fill one of the many gaps in our knowledge of early Igbo history.

SMH.

answer me the question on igbo and Yoruba jollof rice pls dude and then i go leave you alone ok, pls just answer!

OMANBALA1:


For once , I can say Jollof is probably the only food a Yoruba woman can cook better than Igbo. Take this from a pro Igbo. Yoruba learned it from the Hausa

tell me the difference between igbo yoruba and hausa jollof pls, answer me that and I go leave you alone ok

TEYA:
Is it bronze or terracotta?

i think is bronze

The picture below is an Igbo artifact in the British Museum. It is thought to be some kind of bronze bell. No one knows how old it is , but it is thought to be very old.

The objects you have discovered bear a very close resemblance to the artifact in this picture. And it will be nice if we can determine how old they are. We won't know that if you sell on ebay or if it disappears in a private collection. I hope you do the right thing sha.

The picture above is true oooo it bears a striking resemblance to that

You’re the only person in here with sense. These other fools are talking about selling it on eBay while the British get revenue by showcasing our artifacts in their museum. SMH

RedboneSmith:
The picture below is an Igbo artifact in the British Museum. It is thought to be some kind of bronze bell. No one knows how old it is , but it is thought to be very old.

The objects you have discovered bear a very close resemblance to the artifact in this picture. And it will be nice if we can determine how old they are. We won't know that if you sell on ebay or if it disappears in a private collection. I hope you do the right thing sha.

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SilasNwude:
chaii i wish i was the one that dug it up

see money

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My advice to the op is that he should never disclose his real identity and location for now and that its of best interest if an archeologist or group of archeologists comes to the site for proper excavations preferable the foreign archeologist due to processes involved in testing the artifacts. I pray you take the right decision Sha in which selling on ebay as some suggested isn't one. If you have access to the said area of the finding, ensure you protect it by visually making sure all documents are intact.

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For those who have a genuine proposal for the OP which is not stemmed out of greed , you can send a mail to me from NL and we will pick it up from there.

Was the updates about this discovery

Oluwaseydex:
Was the updates about this discovery

We are waiting for a group of archeologist to come and and do their vilification ,after I will update everything

1stbest:
We are waiting for a group of archeologist to come and and do their vilification ,after I will update everything

Play safe!

1stbest:
We are waiting for a group of archeologist to come and and do their vilification ,after I will update everything

What is the latest. Have the archaeologists started the verification process?

mcbillion:


What is the latest. Have the archaeologists started the verification process?

No, they gave us date ( which is month of July. ) if month of July run's � out i will update if they comes or not.