1,200 BC: Cowrie Shells The first use of cowries, the shell of a mollusc that was widely available in the shallow waters of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, was in China. Historically, many ...

The long-awaited design of London’s first monument to victims of the trans-Atlantic slave trade has been unveiled. By 2026, ...

Yassin Fatty, a traditional practitioner of female genital cutting in the West African nation of Gambia, became the first to ...

Between 1662 and 1807, British and British colonial ships purchased some 3.4 million Africans. The sculpture references the cowrie shell. Up until a few years ago, a statue of the slave owner ...

A huge sculpture of a gleaming cowrie shell has been announced as the winner of a competition to commission a new Memorial to Victims of Transatlantic Slavery. The artist behind the work is Khaleb ...

The cowrie, a type of marine snail, has very colourful shells which were used as money. It seems that it wasn’t just the colours that made the shell appealing - its small size and durability ...

Sadiq Khan said The Wake is "a stark reminder of the pain and suffering caused by transatlantic slavery and the role the UK and London played" A 23ft (7m) tall bronze cowrie shell has been chosen ...

A live cowry. Money Cowry shells collected after the molluscs inside have died Pic courtesy www.underwaterkwaj.com For an explanation of the game of Panchi, we need look no further than the novel: ...

shell used as money (Vishnukundin period) cowries, stone pestles, sandstones, the top of Visururai (stone grinder) and heaps ...

While people once exchanged cowry shells or gold coins ... paycheck and your savings as well as for the global economy." 4.