Great Zimbabwe was a 720-hectare (1,779 acres) city that flourished between roughly the 10 th and 15 th centuries A.D. "Zimbabwe" is a Shona name that, while the translation varies, can mean houses of ...
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 ...