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Great Zimbabwe
The stone city that gave a country its name, built without mortar.
About
Great Zimbabwe was the capital of a kingdom that traded gold and ivory as far as China, at its height between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries. Its walls are dry-stone — granite blocks fitted without mortar, some eleven metres high — and enclose a hill complex, a valley of ruins and the Great Enclosure, the largest ancient structure south of the Sahara. Colonial authorities long refused to credit its African builders.
Highlights
- The Great Enclosure
- The Conical Tower
- Hill Complex climb
- Site museum and soapstone birds
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