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A wide, straight red earth avenue separates traditional reddish-brown clay buildings with thatched roofs, leading to defensive earthworks and tropical forests under a clear sky.

A wide, straight red earth avenue separates traditional reddish-brown clay buildings with thatched roofs, leading to defensive earthworks and tropical forests under a clear sky.

A historically accurate architectural reconstruction of Benin City in 1520, Edo Kingdom. Wide, long, and perfectly straight unpaved red earth avenues. Traditional residential compounds made of polished reddish-brown clay or mud walls with horizontal ridge designs. Houses have no outside windows, only pitched roofs made of thatch or palm fronds surrounding internal open-air courtyards (impluviums). In the distance, the Great Earthworks of Benin: massive defensive ramparts and deep dry moats carved out of the earth, covered in dense tropical vegetation and trees (no stone or bricks). Clear daylight, realistic photographic style, high historical fidelity, no fantasy or futuristic elements. Voir plus