Great Zimbabwe is set amid an arid landscape, all aloes and thorn trees and dust. The rains are late this year. When this site was chosen, it was ideal for a rapidly emerging power.

Exploring the Great Zimbabwe, the stone remains of an old city that existed some time in 1100CE, abandoned three centuries later, and then rediscovered in the 19th century.

The ancient city of Great Zimbabwe was an engineering wonder. But archaeologists credited it to Phoenicians, Babylonians, Arabians – anyone but the Africans who actually built it.

Why Great Zimbabwe was abandoned, no one knows for sure. Some say there weren’t enough natural resources to support the city. Others cite the Kingdom of Mutapa, which took over the region around ...

On Wednesday, a High Court in Zimbabwe struck down provisions of the country’s Criminal Law Codification and Reform Act, ...

18 April 1980: How Zimbabwe got its name There’s evidence of human settlements in the Zimbabwean plateau going back at least 500,000 years ago. In the south of Africa, from the 9th century AD ...

There’s evidence of human settlements in the Zimbabwean plateau going back at least 500,000 years ago. In the south of Africa, from the 9th century AD, the city-state Great Zimbabwe flourished. By the ...

The ancient city of Great Zimbabwe was an engineering wonder. But archaeologists credited it to Phoenicians, Babylonians, Arabians – anyone but the Africans who actually built it.