The mysterious African city once home to 18,000 people that's been abandoned for 575 years This ancient metropolis was once a hub of economic and social activity, but mysteriously disappeared ...

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 ...

In a landscape of giant boulders is the ruined town of Great Zimbabwe. It’s part of a kingdom that flourished almost 1,000 years ago, and a bridge to the past.

The Great Zimbabwe ruins rank alongside Egypt's pyramids as one of Africa's most important sites, yet little is known for sure of their story. Archaeologists only started studying the 1,500-year ...

In its prime, from around 1200 to 1550, Great Zimbabwe was home to about 10,000 people.The state covered 1,779 acres, more than twice the area of New York’s Central Park. unesco, the un’s ...

In a landscape of giant boulders is the ruined town of Great Zimbabwe. It’s part of a kingdom that flourished almost 1,000 years ago, and a bridge to the past.