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Podcast: The 'X' Zone Radio/TV Show
Episode: Rob McConnell Interviews - BENNETT VONDERHEIDE - The Nomoli Figurines and Ancient Alien Stones
Description: Nomoli figurines are among the earliest works of art from Sierra Leone. The figurines and similar stone sculptures are the only known remains of an empire that existed hundreds of years ago in what is now Sierra Leone and Liberia. Portuguese explorers first recorded the existence of the figurines in the fifteenth century. Nomoli figurines are often associated with the Mende people as they are often buried on Mende land. The Mende and Kissi people of Sierra Leone place these small statues near their homes and in fields of crops as a form of protection, in the belief that the...