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Did IGBOS Lead The World To Industrialisation? World's Oldest Iron Smelting Site by Reflect7: 1:56am On Jun 26, 2023 |
Did IGBOS Lead The World To Industrialisation? World's Oldest Iron Smelting Site Discovered in Lejja, South Eastern Nigeria. Site Dated To 5,000 Years By Combined Team of Scientists From the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and Oxford University ''Smelting is a process of applying heat to an ore, to extract a base metal. It is a form of extractive metallurgy. It is used to extract many metals from their ores, including silver, iron, copper, and other base metals. Smelting uses heat and a chemical- reducing agent to decompose the ore, driving off other elements as gases or slag and leaving the metal base behind.'' World's Oldest Iron Smelting Site, Lejja, Nigeria, Dated 2,000 BC Where would the world be today, technology-wise, without IRON-SMELTING? Should the world not credit IGBOS with this marvellous invention that changed the face of the world, and led to the Industrial Revolution?? https://thingsnigeria.com/2018/02/14/lejja-the-worlds-oldest-iron-smelting-site-in-nigeria/ Wikipedia ''The earliest Iron smelting was in Lejja, Nigeria. They have carbon-dated slag blocks to 2000 BCE. In a village square in Lejja, located about 15 kilometers south of the university town of Nsukka in southeastern Nigeria, lies what appears to be the oldest iron-smelting site in the world. Arranged in crescent shapes with mounds in the middle across a wide sitting area at Otobo Ejuona, as the arena is known, are hundreds of bits of smelting debris, or slags, recently carbon-dated to about 2000 BCE by a team of archaeologists and other experts from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and Oxford University in the United Kingdom. Evidence of iron smelting in Lejja: Intensive smelting of iron took place at the site of Lejja, in south east Nigeria during prehistoric periods. This statement is substantiated by the extensive iron smelting debris left behind in Lejja. The debris could point not only to an extensive iron smelting period in the history of the site, but could even represent the remains of a once thriving industry. Iron smelting often involved the community as a whole, and its effects were usually far reaching; from changing the status and living standards of the smelters to the actual development of some African cultures'' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smelting 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Did IGBOS Lead The World To Industrialisation? World's Oldest Iron Smelting Site by SangoOlukosoOba(m): 1:57am On Jun 26, 2023 |
Yes! They taught the Egyptians, Persians and Romans. Even the United Kingdom was founded by a Igbo man - Emeka Uchenna Ejiofor 17 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Did IGBOS Lead The World To Industrialisation? World's Oldest Iron Smelting Site by Praxis758: 1:57am On Jun 26, 2023 |
Even Archaeologists will soon discover the lost garden of Eden in Igboland. 13 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Did IGBOS Lead The World To Industrialisation? World's Oldest Iron Smelting Site by lexylaw40: 2:07am On Jun 26, 2023 |
5000 years ago igbo tribe never existed so stop the lies.. even Yorubas and Hausa migrated from North Africa and Egypt down to sub saharan region to settle. I would like to believe that work was don by some other clans before they finally abandoned the barren land for a better place, the same way igbos have now abandoned southeast trying to move over to lagos, a land that's filled with milk and honey 🍯 7 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Did IGBOS Lead The World To Industrialisation? World's Oldest Iron Smelting Site by Reflect7: 2:10am On Jun 26, 2023 |
lexylaw40: Sorry, but this research is not about what ''you would like to believe.'' 7 Likes |
Re: Did IGBOS Lead The World To Industrialisation? World's Oldest Iron Smelting Site by Reflect7: 2:19am On Jun 26, 2023 |
ChiefJusticeFuc: We get it.....your ethnic hate is so deep you cannot bring yourself to give credit. You need healing dude. 5 Likes |
Re: Did IGBOS Lead The World To Industrialisation? World's Oldest Iron Smelting Site by ChiefJusticeFuc: 2:20am On Jun 26, 2023 |
Praxis758: This is the effect of drinking too much wokeism . They need a story badly . 3 Likes |
Re: Did IGBOS Lead The World To Industrialisation? World's Oldest Iron Smelting Site by ChiefJusticeFuc: 2:20am On Jun 26, 2023 |
Reflect7: We wuz wakanda and shit . 5 Likes |
Re: Did IGBOS Lead The World To Industrialisation? World's Oldest Iron Smelting Site by Reflect7: 2:21am On Jun 26, 2023 |
ChiefJusticeFuc: What false history? Are you a school dropout or something? The links were posted to the sources, so what is false? You need to grow up. 3 Likes |
Re: Did IGBOS Lead The World To Industrialisation? World's Oldest Iron Smelting Site by lexylaw40: 2:21am On Jun 26, 2023 |
Reflect7:the site is in igbo land fine.... but u need to show us some evidence to prove that the igbo tribe have settled in that region 5000 years ago. Just prove that you have been settled there for 5000 years 3 Likes |
Re: Did IGBOS Lead The World To Industrialisation? World's Oldest Iron Smelting Site by Reflect7: 2:24am On Jun 26, 2023 |
lexylaw40: I think it is actually YOUR job to prove that they were NOT settled there 5,000 years ago, and also to tell us where they were settled and where they came from, and when. And also tell us - with evidence - WHO you think were the original settlers of Lejja. Failing which we'll have to conclude it was the ancestors of modern Igbos who invented iron smelting. That's the scientific way. 3 Likes |
Re: Did IGBOS Lead The World To Industrialisation? World's Oldest Iron Smelting Site by ChiefJusticeFuc: 2:27am On Jun 26, 2023 |
Reflect7: The Arab who now occupied Egypt did not take credit for the pyramids. The British isles is home to Stonehenge but no Briton is taking credit for it as they don't know how it got there. Those relics predate you settling in your latrine corner. Why were there such extensive works but no archeological relics of fabricated iron works ? You are very recent to that corner of the world you now occupy. There is no evidence you were responsible for such works as there is no relics of whatever was fabricated in those kilns in your civilazion. So rest 9 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: Did IGBOS Lead The World To Industrialisation? World's Oldest Iron Smelting Site by Reflect7: 2:29am On Jun 26, 2023 |
ChiefJusticeFuc: Actually....they do. But that's another story. The British isles is home to Stonehenge but no Briton is taking credit for it as they don't know how it got there. I love educating your type. IGBO-UKWU BRONZES 3 Likes |
Re: Did IGBOS Lead The World To Industrialisation? World's Oldest Iron Smelting Site by Reflect7: 2:31am On Jun 26, 2023 |
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Re: Did IGBOS Lead The World To Industrialisation? World's Oldest Iron Smelting Site by laiperi: 2:31am On Jun 26, 2023 |
Every topic should not turn to ethnic war. Until Nigerians learn to get along and stop putting one another down, we will continue to appreciate only junks importation. The settlers around that area are Igbo, Igala mixed with other Nigerians. This is why Ajaokuta Steel mill is built in that area. There is enough credit for Nigerians when you consider that bronze and steel comes from iron used in the oldest Yoruba Arts. So is Terra Cotta. Stop fighting and embrace your innovations. 3 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Did IGBOS Lead The World To Industrialisation? World's Oldest Iron Smelting Site by pacino26(m): 2:31am On Jun 26, 2023 |
NL is becoming very toxic and it’s amusing how people find solace in debasing other tribes. I have watched a documentary about this few years ago and I know where it to be somewhere in North Africa or Europe the folks who posted before me would have been in awe and marvel. This goes to show how much we as a people don’t value what we have and always want to feel inferior. Archeology should be encouraged in Africa and Nigeria because the key to the future lies in the past. We can’t have people telling us our history and making fortunes out of it. The remnants inhabiting Africa today are the uncivilized descendants of a once super and technologically advanced race. 4 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Did IGBOS Lead The World To Industrialisation? World's Oldest Iron Smelting Site by ChiefJusticeFuc: 2:32am On Jun 26, 2023 |
Reflect7: The Binis are the ones who should be given credit for that works as they migrated down from Egypt and made that place their industrial military complex . The Binis are renowned for their bronze, brass, copper and iron works and not you I believe these Bini warriors were the black Pharaohs who were expelled from Egypt and they brought you along (Hebrew slaves that refused to follow Moses out of Egypt) as their slaves . Your ancestors probably did the heavy work of mining the ore and attending to the kiln while your Bini masters smelted the ore to make weapons in readying for battle . The little you know about iron works comes from being apprenticed under the wise counsel of the Bini priests . So there you have it 5 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Did IGBOS Lead The World To Industrialisation? World's Oldest Iron Smelting Site by lexylaw40: 2:33am On Jun 26, 2023 |
Reflect7:please bronze.....Benin people are the bronze experts. And igbos are not known to have such tribal marks .. that's is a yoruba art or benin 4 Likes |
Re: Did IGBOS Lead The World To Industrialisation? World's Oldest Iron Smelting Site by Reflect7: 2:37am On Jun 26, 2023 |
pacino26: With people who reason like you, Africa still has hope. Well done sir. 1 Like |
Re: Did IGBOS Lead The World To Industrialisation? World's Oldest Iron Smelting Site by Reflect7: 2:42am On Jun 26, 2023 |
lexylaw40: Don't be silly. You think I started doing this today? When I post IGBO-UKWU artefacts, I know EXACTLY what they are, so don't type any foolishness. |
Re: Did IGBOS Lead The World To Industrialisation? World's Oldest Iron Smelting Site by Reflect7: 2:43am On Jun 26, 2023 |
You want Iron. You got iron. |
Re: Did IGBOS Lead The World To Industrialisation? World's Oldest Iron Smelting Site by Reflect7: 2:49am On Jun 26, 2023 |
ChiefJusticeFuc: Clown. I enjoyed that bit of comic relief. 1 Like |
Re: Did IGBOS Lead The World To Industrialisation? World's Oldest Iron Smelting Site by lexylaw40: 2:56am On Jun 26, 2023 |
Reflect7:so can you tell us how old that knive and dagan artifacts really is , yes tell us the exact age of those artifacts. |
Re: Did IGBOS Lead The World To Industrialisation? World's Oldest Iron Smelting Site by plaindealer: 3:02am On Jun 26, 2023 |
Reflect7: Igbo leads the world in industrialization is history.? Look around you, do you see any industrialization in igboland? Sit down with your fake history abeg? 4 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Did IGBOS Lead The World To Industrialisation? World's Oldest Iron Smelting Site by Reflect7: 3:03am On Jun 26, 2023 |
lexylaw40: 10th Century See more from the British museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Af1905-0413-59 |
Re: Did IGBOS Lead The World To Industrialisation? World's Oldest Iron Smelting Site by Reflect7: 3:08am On Jun 26, 2023 |
plaindealer: Dropout. I said ''lead the world to''. Not ''lead the world in''. Look around you, do you see any industrialization in igboland? School dropout, let me explain it slowly for your slow head. Igbos invented iron smelting. Without iron smelting, there could be no cars, buses, computers, phones, aeroplanes, or anything else designed from metal. Human society HAD to invent iron smelting BEFORE such items could even be imagined, let alone attempted. The Igbo invention of iron smelting was a NECESSARY INNOVATION for the industrialised modern world we have today to exist. Does your brain get it now or should I speak in pidgin? 2 Likes |
Re: Did IGBOS Lead The World To Industrialisation? World's Oldest Iron Smelting Site by plaindealer: 3:14am On Jun 26, 2023 |
Reflect7: Low self-esteem fake news peddler, the NOK folks in Nigeria smelted iron back in 400 BC, long before they discovered your existence.. 4 Likes 1 Share
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Re: Did IGBOS Lead The World To Industrialisation? World's Oldest Iron Smelting Site by Reflect7: 3:52am On Jun 26, 2023 |
plaindealer: The Lejja site was dated to 2,000 BC. It says so right at the top of the page you nitwit. 1 Like |
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