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The ruins of the Great Zimbabwe are said to be the capital of the Queen of Sheba, at least that is what the legend claims. Instead, it is believed that members of the Gokomere culture, ancient ...

Contrite, the BSA hired archeologist David Randall-MacIver, protégé of the great Egyptologist Flinders Petrie, to investigate the site. Hall's polar opposite in almost every way, Randall-MacIver ...

In an area plagued by periods of drought, it is difficult to understand how the great ancient city of Great Zimbabwe thrived for centuries, but the answer to that has now been found In the mountains ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Christraud M. Geary photographs of South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe Christraud M. Geary photographs of South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe / ...

Great Zimbabwe is, quite simply, the most extensive and best-preserved ruins anywhere in Africa south of the Sahara Desert. The ancient African kingdom of Munhumatapa built the series of stone co ...

Spread around in every direction, great jumbled blocks of granite rise from the ground to create spectacular rock formations, their fantastical shapes fashioned by centuries of wind and rain, of heat ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Christraud M. Geary photographs of South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, EEPA 1995-002, Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of ...