While the site was occupied in ancient times—iron was in ... the important role of ritual and symbol in the art and architecture of Great Zimbabwe." By the mid-15 th century, however, the ...

Wars were fought, art and architecture proliferated ... and down the celebrated Victoria Falls. However, the ancient royal city of Great Zimbabwe has been accorded the Unesco World Heritage ...

The ruins of Great Zimbabwe are a remarkable testimony to the former might of the ancient kingdom that bore the same name. The greatest stone monument in Africa south of the Sahara, Great Zimbabwe was ...

In 1871, Mauch, eager to seek for the fabled ruins of Ophir, penetrated deep into what is today southern Zimbabwe ... told that "the Great Master" had come to see "the ancient temple which ...