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Great Zimbabwe was a city that flourished between the 10th and 15th centuries A.D. The ruins contain numerous stone enclosures with soaring walls that were made without mortar.

With its high conical tower, its long, curved stone walls and its cosmopolitan artifacts, Great Zimbabwe attests to the existence of a thriving city that may have dominated trade and culture ...

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.

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.

Exploring the Great Zimbabwe, the stone remains of an old city that existed some time in 1100CE, abandoned three centuries later, and then rediscovered in the 19th century.

Walking up to the towering walls of Great Zimbabwe was a humbling experience. The closer I got, the more they dwarfed me – and yet, there was something inviting about the archaeological site. It ...

Just outside the city of Masvingo in southern Zimbabwe lie the majestic ruins of Great Zimbabwe—an ancient city whose stone walls once echoed with the footsteps of kings and merchants. While ...

The Great Zimbabwe ruins rank alongside Egypt's pyramids as one of Africa's most important sites, yet little is known for sure of their story.

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.