- — Africa:
Nok terracottas first recognised
Terracotta heads unearthed near the village of Nok during tin-mining drew scholarly attention, giving the ancient culture its name and revealing the antiquity of Nigerian art.
Era: The Nok culture and Nigeria's early societies
Sources: Nok Terracottas (Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History) · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nigeria (country overview and history) · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- — Asia:
The alphabet and language reforms
Turkey replaced the Arabic script with a new Latin-based Turkish alphabet in 1928, part of reforms that sharply raised literacy and reoriented the nation toward Europe.
Era: The Republic and Modern Türkiye
Sources: Kemal Atatürk · Encyclopædia Britannica
Culture & Ideas in the 1920s
Every event in the Terralore archive tagged culture and ideas — art, language, science and learning, narrowed to the 1920s — 2 of them, drawn from 2 nations, all of it in 1928. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 2
- Nations
- 2
- Earliest
- 1928
- Latest
- 1928
- Africa
- 1
- Asia
- 1
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.