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Who built Great Zimbabwe, the largest ancient stone ruins in sub-Saharan Africa?
Archaeology settled this by 1929, but colonial Rhodesia promoted exotic builders for decades because a medieval African city contradicted its founding story. The nation named itself after the site in 1980.
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Great Zimbabwe Great Zimbabwe is the largest ancient stone ruin in sub-Saharan Africa: the capital of a Shona trading state that flourished from the 11th to 15th centuries, its mortarless granite walls rising up to 11 metres. Colonial-era authorities denied its African origin for decades; the independent nation of Zimbabwe took its name from the site in 1980.
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