While the ruins of Great Zimbabwe are well-known to scholars and archaeologists, Zimbabwe’s most significant heritage site has yet to make it onto the list of “must-see” places for most of ...

IN the hills of the southeastern corner of Zimbabwe, near Lake Mutirikwi and the town of Masvingo, a great city of stone rises out of the ground and dominates the landscape. In its heyday ...

The ancient city of Great Zimbabwe was an engineering wonder. But archaeologists credited it to Phoenicians, Babylonians, Arabians – anyone but the Africans who actually built it. Walking up to ...

Nearly 20,000 Shona citizens once animated the 1,800-acre ruins of Great Zimbabwe. Sub-Saharan Africa has many zimbabwes, or stone villages, but this one is by far the most legendary. All that ...

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The ancient city of Great Zimbabwe was an engineering wonder. But archaeologists credited it to Phoenicians, Babylonians, Arabians – anyone but the Africans who actually built it. Walking up to ...

The ancient city, Great Zimbabwe, in Zimbabwe, Africa, was once part of a large and wealthy global trading network and boasted a population between 10,000 to 20,000. It was largely abandoned by ...