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Current Condition of the Iya in Benin City, the Gates and Future Preservation Strategies

Abstract This paper investigates the preservation and morphology of the Inner City Iya of Benin in southern Nigeria, Edo State. The Iya have been the focus of research in the 1960s and 1970s by archaeologists Graham Connah and Patrick Darling. Since then, urban development has grown rapidly spreading out across the wider Iya network and damaging the earthworks. Already more than half of the Iya within Benin City vanished. Digital archaeology methods pose new opportunities for cost-effective and rapid documentation and monitoring of the remaining Iya. Based on these results and maps, the paper …