PERSIAN CIVILISATION IN WEST AFRICA?
As a lecture given by the explorer Herr Leo Frobenius at the Colonial Office in Berlin on his discoveries of .traces of ancient civilisation in.British West Africa the German Emperor examined some tcrra-ootta heads, which'Herr Frobenius regards as evidence that tho site of tho ancient Atlantis was in Nigeria, with the utmost interest, declaring them obviously portraits, and ,not the work of negroes. Routor's correspondent says that Herr Frobenius also entertained tho Emperor with an account of some old "Byzantine" remains found in the midst of Africa in the form of magnificent garments showing the inflnenco of Persian culture on a Byzantine foundation. A negro dressed in these garments paraded before the Emperor. Ilcrr Frobenius mentioned that though most of his finds came from British territory," ho know of ruins of a "Persian" cit,y in tho German African colony, to which tho Emperor replied, "No efforts must bo spared to bring those to light."
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1663, 1 February 1913, Page 5
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159PERSIAN CIVILISATION IN WEST AFRICA? Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1663, 1 February 1913, Page 5
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