While MacIver's careful work set the stage for the sound archeological inquiry of Great Zimbabwe, racial prejudice surrounded the monument until quite recently. In the 1960s and 1970s, as the ...

While the ruins of Great Zimbabwe are well-known to scholars and archaeologists, Zimbabwe’s most significant heritage site has yet to make it onto the list of “must-see” places for most of ...

Mauch was looking at the greatest pre-Portuguese ruins of sub-Saharan Africa. The highest of Great Zimbabwe's walls soar 32 feet above the surrounding savanna. Unfortunately, Mauch, for all his ...