HISTORY & CIVILIZATIONS · 11th–15th C.
Great Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe
The stone ruins testify to a major Shona centre that flourished between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries.
The story, as a puzzle
An African city in stone.
Its massive stone walls were built without mortar, and they impressed later generations so much that a modern country took its name from the site. Where?
Where it is
Think you'd have found it on the map?
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