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The walls of Benin in Edo State, Nigeria are the largest man-made structures and the largest Archaeological Earthworks in the World. In Benin, capital city of present day Edo State stood the walls of Benin (800 - 1400AD) which are the longest ancient earthworks in the world and apparently the largest man-made structure on earth.
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Background The origins of the Benin Moats, also known as the Walls of Benin, cannot be attributed to a single ruler or era. [2] While Oba Oguola played a role in expanding and deepening the moats, evidence suggests that these moats existed before his reign and even before the establishment of the Oba monarchy. [2]
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The Guinness Book of World Records describes the walls of Benin City as the world's second-largest man-made structure after China's Great Wall, in terms of length, and the series of earthen ramparts as the most extensive earthwork in the world.
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Edo, Nigeria 2002, 2004 and 2006 World Monuments Watch The Benin City Walls consist of a set of inner and outer interlocking rings originally built to delineate the royal precinct of the Oba, or king, from the surrounding area.
Ancient Walls of Benin were four times longer than Walls of China. Destroyed by British in 1897
March 13, 2019 By Kylie Kiunguyu The Walls of Benin, one of Africa's ancient architectural marvels, were destroyed by the British in 1897 during what has become known as the Punitive Expedition. This shocking act destroyed more than a thousand years of Benin history and some of the earliest evidence of rich African civilisations.
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The walls are part of a huge earthworks system that demarcated communities in south-central Nigeria. The entire system is four times as long as the Great Wall of China and was erected between the 7th and 15th centuries. They served practical purposes (fees were charged those market women who entered the city's nine gates from rural areas) and.
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The Great Walls of Benin were a series of more than 500 interconnected earth walls (Edo: Lya) in the area around present-day Benin City. They extended for some 16,000 km in all, took an estimated 150 million hours of digging to construct and were perhaps the largest single manmade site on the planet.
The longest wall in history is not the Chinese one, but the wall in Benin and was over 9,900
The walls are located in Benin City, a city situated in the southwestern part of Nigeria and they are a series of earthworks made up of banks and ditches. The walls were once a rival for the Great walls of China, during its glory days, ahead of their time and an enigma that left westerners baffled. The Walls of Benin in a drawing from the 19th.
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The earthworks served as a bastion and also afforded control of access to the capital which had nine gates that were shut at night. TECHNICALITIES The Benin moat is over 3200 kilometers long. The defensive fortification of Benin City, the capital, consisted of ramparts and moats enclosing a 4000 square kilometer (2485.5 miles) of community lands.
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The Great Wall of Benin With a circumference of about 16.8 Kilometers, the Benin Wall built in 1010 AD is known to have been the largest man-made structure in West Africa, located in Old Benin Kingdom. Origin Benin Kingdom Recorded 13 Dec 1901 Location Present Day Edo State in Nigeria Link https://ngembassy.info/article/ Availabillity History
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The Walls of Benin are a series of earthworks made up of banks and ditches, called Iya in the Edo language in the area around present-day Benin City, the capital of present-day Edo, Nigeria.. Visitors in the 16th and 19th centuries brought back to Europe tales of "Great Benin", a fabulous city of noble buildings, ruled over by a powerful.
Interesting facts about the Great Walls of Benin in Nigeria, one of the world's largest manmade
The Benin empire was one of the oldest and most highly developed states in west Africa, dating back to the 11th century. The Guinness Book of Records (1974 edition) described the walls of Benin.
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Archeologically known as the Ancient Linear Earthworks of Benin and Ishan, the Great Wall of Africa, also known as the Great Wall of Benin is almost 10,000 miles long and at some points reaches almost 60 feet in height. Even though it holds a place in the 1982 Guinness Book of World Records as the most massive structure that has ever.
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BENIN IYA - WORLD'S LONGEST ANCIENT EARTHWORKS This 4m deep ditch and bank acted as Ekhor Niro's community earthwork boundary about 1,300 years ago: it is part of the core zone earthworks, where the complicated network achieves densities of up to 7 km of earthworks per sq km. DISJUNCT BETWEEN THE CORE ZONE (right) AND PERIPHERY (left)
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The Benin Moat, also known as the Benin Iya, Walls of Benin or locally as Iyanuwo, are a series of massive earthworks encircling Benin City in Nigeria's Edo State. These moats have deep historical roots, with evidence suggesting their existence before the establishment of the Oba monarchy. Construction began around 800 AD and continued until 1460 AD, involving large-scale manual labour and the.