The African Walls 4X Longer Than China's Great Wall

In 1485, Portuguese explorers discovered a West African city that was more advanced than their own capital. Benin City had street lighting, urban planning, and walls four times longer than the Great Wall of China—all built before the mechanical era.
This video uncovers the untold story of the Great Walls of Benin (the Iya), an engineering marvel that stretched over 16,000 kilometers and required 150 million man-hours of labor. We explore how the Edo people designed their city using fractal geometry, why the walls were more than just defensive structures, and how the British Empire systematically destroyed this masterpiece in 1897.
From the glowing streets lit by palm oil lamps to the catastrophic punitive expedition that looted thousands of Benin Bronzes, this is the history they didn't teach you in school.
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SOURCES:
Historical accounts by Portuguese Captain Lourenco Pinto (1485)
Ron Eglash's research on fractal geometry in African architecture
UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List (1995)
British Museum records on the 1897 Benin Expedition
Archaeological studies and satellite mapping projects
Edo State historical preservation documentation

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