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. Walking up to the ...

For centuries, this ancient Shona city stood at the hub of a vast trade network. The site has also been at the center of a bitter debate about African history and heritage On the southern edge of the ...

The Great Enclosure of Great Zimbabwe conveyed majesty, wealth, and architectural genius. The Great Enclosure of Great Zimbabwe is the largest pre-colonial structure in the whole of Sub-Saharan Africa ...

IN the hills of the southeastern corner of Zimbabwe, near Lake Mutirikwi and the town of Masvingo, a great city of stone rises out of the ground and dominates the landscape. In its heyday, this city ...

Wars were fought, art and architecture proliferated, dynasties reigned, and in turn, they were overthrown. While the ruins of Great Zimbabwe are well-known to scholars and archaeologists, Zimbabwe’s ...

Legend has it that this was once a playground for the giants – and for visitors gazing over this steep hill in southern Zimbabwe it’s easy to understand why. Spread around in every direction, great ...

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 ...