In southern Africa - in the nation of Zimbabwe - an unlikely sight appears in the south-eastern hills near Masvingo. It is the ruins of what was once a great city - including the largest stone structure in precolonial Southern Africa. When Europeans first saw the sprawling site - they speculated who built it. Was it the Phoenicians? Arabs? King Solomon? It didn’t occur to them that the local people had done so - yet that is exactly what had happened. This is the story of the Great Zimbabwe.

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Zimbabwe

https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/364/

Image: By Jan Derk - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Great-Zimbabwe.jpg

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