Either way, archeological investigation has shown that the edifice's monumental walls did once enclose houses. Great Zimbabwe was a city, home at its heyday to some 12,000 to 20,000 people.

Perhaps this is what makes the ruins so speculative and intriguing. Like most of Great Zimbabwe, the stone walls and passages within the hillside complex were never meant to rise above the ...

Mauch was looking at the greatest pre-Portuguese ruins of sub-Saharan Africa. The highest of Great Zimbabwe's walls soar 32 feet above the surrounding savanna. Unfortunately, Mauch, for all his ...