Select the best answer for the question. Why might scholars want to study material culture (art, architecture, and artifacts) of early modern Africa?

A. Scholars haven't been able to translate written documents because there are too many languages to understand.

B. Written documents did not survive the great flooding, so historians need to study material culture instead.

C. There's a lack of written documents of African origin for historians to use as sources. D. Historians still don't understand the hieroglyphics that African peoples used to record history