Great Zimbabwe is an extensive stone-built settlement whose surviving enclosures and walls are among southern Africa’s most remarkable historic structures. It gave modern Zimbabwe its name.
UNESCO lists the Great Zimbabwe National Monument as a World Heritage site. Accounts of the site should start with the people who built and lived there—not colonial-era myths that dismissed African ingenuity.
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