Great Zimbabwe National Monument (UNESCO/NHK)
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- The ruins of Great Zimbabwe � the capital of the Queen of Sheba, according to an age-old legend � are a unique testimony to the Bantu civilization of the Shona between the 11th and 15th centuries. The city, which covers an area of nearly 80 ha, was an important trading centre and was renowned from the Middle Ages onwards.
Source: UNESCO TV / © NHK Nippon Hoso Kyokai
URL: whc.unesco.org/en/list/364/
Greetings from Mexico, it seemed incredible to me that in your country there are vestiges, I studied anthropology and because of that the great Zimbabwe caught my attention, I hope one day to be able to know such a wonder, greetings to all those from Zimbabwe.
I love living in the modern era, where I can see videos of all the world's wonders on demand.
Beautiful place one day I want to visit this place
Where was the library with the books on history, political theory, geography, metallurgy and astronomy? What language were they written in, and were they paper or stone? Where are these records today so one can read all about great zimbabwe?
There were none. It was a neolithic, semi urbanised culture. That is not civilisation.
Hold up so show us the evidence of iron or even bronze artefacts confirmed as being made in Great Zimbabwe. Without these, it's Neolithic. There were of course Bronze Age cultures in sub Saharan Africa, eg in Benin, but even these were not civilised.
@hold up evidence.
@@RodFleming-World There is literally a Clan in Zimbabwe whom in their Totem praise poetry ( There are hundreds of Totems in Zimbabwe and Every clan/family has a Totem assigned to them and their family by their community centuries ago at Great Zimbabwe) People of the Soko totem are reffered to as "Vapfuri VeMhangura" "the smelters of iron" in the Soko totem praise poetry. This tells us that the Sokos were the professional iron smelters at Great Zimbabwe. Every clan had a hereditary role at Great Zimbabwe, "The son of a builder became a builder". Some clans were Masons and Architects, Some were Great Farmers, Some were Traders, Some were Priests. Some were Military men, All these people contributed to the Great Zimbabwe Civilisation. Morden day Zimbabweans know exactly what their direct Ancestor's role was in Great Zimbabwe because of these centuries old heriditary Totem clan poetry praises. In short Yes iron was smelted at Great Zimbabwe.
@Rod Fleming Historical evidence is not limited to written sources
You're too subjective
the Shona never came from Sahara desert, stop these lies
I always see these same lies aswell They want us to believe that civilization began in Egypt and middle east , basically when humans moved out of Africa.
Europeans would go into Africa and destroy cities and monuments and claim that no one lived on the land.
thanks for helping me pass ap world 😏
same
I am saying, that the historian counts only hypotheses, not reality. There are monuments made by giants, before the catalytic period. later, the site was reused by another civilization with stone technology. this was not in the recent or historical period; this before 13000 years ago, at least. The natives live in mud and straw houses, another civilization and current technology.
absolutly cool
It's dry-stone walling! High walling but nonetheless putting one stone on top of another. The habitations were mud huts. Even the tower is solid. Look at what the Europeans were building in the medieval period - Notre Dame, Salisbury Cathedral, Dover Castle etc. But if these building blocks help you cope then ok.
It is strange these ruins are being hyped up more than normal because of where it’s located plus considering the English landmarks you listed from the same era makes it even more apparent.
Affirmative archaeology!
The shonas did not build a single stone structure in southern Africa.From Adam's Calendar,Ziwa,Thulamela, Great Zimbabwe,Mapungubwe,Domboshaba,...In fact they arrived at the turn of the 17th century from the western shores of lake Tanganyika.These were built by the ancestors of the kalanga people.
Sophia Laurent Most of them seem to strongly differ!
And I find it too far-fetched that the shonas came from The Sahara desert! Really? I would say today's DRC!
Leave the shonas alone yu haters they built it stop spreading silly lies about kalanga people they are fake Zimbabweans and no one is buying yo stupid theory
That's kinda the same
Do you know that shona is not the name of the people you are refering to. The tribes were called by the names of the kingdoms. The name Shona was a name given to the people of the whole area by the portuguese which was meant to insult us form people of svina (dirt). There were many tribes yes but all tracing their decendants to the same ancestors and were in the area for thousands of years. Thats why you will fing the languages are baicaly one language with different dialects. Something similar to English in the UK and English in the USA from english in Australia or South Africa
I was really impressed by the amateur archaeologists in these posts. With their thoughtful, polite, well written, and well researched opinions ;)
Great Zimbabwe ruins, was it a civilization or just a settlement.
Civilization can mean alot of things.
There are only four(4) Cradle of civilizations that have been identified.
1. Mesopotamia
2.Ancient Egypt
3.Ancient china
4.Meso-America
These civilizations are identified as cradles of civilization on Account that they emerged from local indeginous Cultures.
These Cultures experienced rise and fall at different time periods, each one of them contributing something new to the society.
And, these Cultures would eventually culminate into whats called dynastic culture, Civilization then begins just here.
Dynastic cultures are characterized by independent Writing, Art, engineering, trade, textiles e.t.c.
And then you have non-cradle civilizations, these civilizations are basically exported urban Cultures, they are not representative independent cultures.
E.g Greeko-roman civilizations which were essentially exported from Ancient Egypt.
Indus valley exported urban Culture from mesopotamia.
Japanese culture, exported from China
And so on and so forth
In all honesty, Europe does not have anything to stand on its two feet to claim civilization.
The only potential Culture in the forefront to spawn europes first ever indegenous civilization are the stone hendge megalithic Culture, even they, they can from Near East.
In the Niger-congo language family, the history of Cultural development is to long. They formed advanced Cultures and then spread over vast lands, delaying the establishment of civilization at an early age.
These Niger-congo speaking people eventually started forming Cultures in isolation of each other,
E.g Tichitt Cultures (4000BC-2000BC)
Nok culture, 3,500 yrs ago ( where ille ife, benin kingdom, bura Culture, etc descendent from).
In southern Africa, its mapangubwe which laid the foundation for great Zimbabwe.
The Cultures at these communities were specialized in making their artefacts in gold instead of bronze, or stones. Much of these artefacts that existed were looted and dissolved without knowing their importance to world history.
Stone walls were found, and the Culture developed a highly stratified society, in other words sophisticated buerocracy was observed.
In one of the Golden artefacts found at great Zimbabwe, is a bowl like fragmented pottery, if well observed abd reassembled together. It has different animals and abstract objects surrounding this bowl like golden artefact. The purpose of this object can be assumed to be a divination bowl, Representation of abstract thought onto an object A.K.A proto writing.
The population which lived at great Zimbabwe is thought to have moved north wards, hence starting the great Zimbabwe culture.
At great Zimbabwe, improved masonry was improved applied to granite bricks.
Great Zimbabwe is not always about the walls, but also about the cultural formation.
What is observed at great Zimbabwe is the rising of high religious elite class.
These religious high elite class along with the choosen legitimate king in their eyes would have employed a creation of artefacts in stone, A.K.A the Zimbabwe soapstone birds and a schematic representation of a woman figure in stone. The exact reason of the soap stone birds is unknown but may likely have played a religious role.
Among the objects found is a round like shaped bronze object. There it shows, a human holding what looks like a tamed leopard or simply a dog facing a baboon. This pictogram alone is able to give us a grimpse into that society and from observable view, Can be interplated as baboons would have been a very big problem where farming was concerned, therefore tamed leopards or simply dogs were used in chasing these baboons.
Another divination bowl is uncovered, this great Zimbabwe divination bowl shows real inscriptions, which seems to be not just mere zodiac signs or pictographic signs,they are more complex when observed carefully, infact they are morw clear than Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Unfortunately, that is the only surviving object, Alot of artefacts made in gold were essentially dissolved, vital information lost.
At great Zimbabwe, there exists a Megalithic stone schematically curved resembling a bird.
Unique looms for weaving textiles probably belonging to the king and high priests were discovered.
This Culture represents indeginousity and independent innovations outside of any other cultures, Therefore represents a Cradling Culture. They had art, they had megalithic schematic art, they developed writing likely known to the elites only, textiles, engineering etc even though square houses were unknown. This is representative of a Culture evolving feom indeginous local Cultures Therefore qualifies to be called a cradle of civilization. Unfortunately that wont happen becouse, the material culture collapsed around the 14th century. Numerous societies emerged from the collapse of great Zimbabwe but no one replicated the stone birds and the divination bowls to continual the writing system, therefore those objects/arts are exclusively only found no where else other than at great Zimbabwe site.
The time period in which the city may have been built in these case doesn't matter as civilizations emerged at different period in time.
Laughing at great Zimbabwe is like laughing at the
first chinese Cultures and their first dynasty.
or the first Egyptian Cultures,
or the first mesopotamian Cultures
or the first Meso-american Cultures.
This is the importance of Great Zimbabwe ruins, remember it was great when Europeans claimed but primitive when it was found to be african.
Greek-rome are more older and developed in urbanism but they were not indegenous and not representative of real extinct European Cultures
I can’t with some of these comments lol 🤦♀️
Amazing!
We actually have no idea who built Great Zimbabwe. It is kind of you to attribute it to the local indigenous people but I highly doubt they built this structure or the town around it without some serious assistance, if they built it at all.
for sure, surely an alien construction, or annunaki 🤡
Yeah it was aliens. 🤡
@@Fluxxxx Not sure who built the huge stone megalith's around the world but we know it wasn't the local tribesmen. Why?? Because they stopped building them- why stop- unless you never built them in the first place:)
Typical white person
Not exactly a wonder. Nor is it Ancient. Why such deception?
Zimbabwe ruins was NOT a kingdom. It was a very large trading post. Say what you will. The acropollis was where the traders lived and the torches were lit to serve as a beacon at night for those coming to sell goods. The great enclosure was simply a large, well protected warehouse for goods bought and stored prior to being moved to the Savè river, which would then transport the goods to the waiting Dbows on the coast.
Are you by any chance disputing the New Soviet Order?
Zimbabwe was the cradle of Everything, there's nothing that Afro-Islamic culture didn't discover and did not present to the Believer since the inception of History,.It's all in the Holey Book .
Long live Erdogan. The infidel will repent . 🤯🍾🥂🍷🍸
I'm Zimbabwean I think I know a little more about this than you since they were my Ancestors and all. Yes it was a Kindom and Yes trade was their biggest earner. Judging by the racist undertones of your comments I'm sure you think my Ancestors were Arabs. They were not!! Great Zimbabwe builders were in Southern Africa for 500 years before the construction at Great Zimbabwe, this culture grew as Egos grew. I sincerely doubt that Arabs were loitering in Southern Africa for 500 years and theres never been any written record stating that. And the types of housing at Great Zimbabwe was the traditional African clay huts. The foundations of the huts have been carbon dated along with the stone ruins itself and they both were erected at the same time. Meaning that the builders of Great Zimbabwe lived in African Clan Huts. There is no evidence of a non African dwelling anywhere at Great Zimbabwe.
@@Wesley-ls5wh Look pal, the evidence clearly shows that this is just an Arab trade post. Why are you people revising history to boost your egos?
@@rossevanricamara4169 Arabs had writing systems why didn't they write about their presence in Zimbabwe. Skulls recovered from Mapungubwe were of Bantus one male believed to have been the King had the famous golden Sceptre firmly in his hand in a seated position with gold beads and bangles on his body. In concussion all remains found at all Zimbabwe type settlements (over 200 scattered across Zimbabwe) were of Ancestors of the Shona. Not a single Middle Eastern remains have been found or a Mosque of any kind
@@Wesley-ls5wh Traders don't fight.
Hardly great by any stretch of the imagination
Unreal.
@@Bigbaz86 what do you mean , if you want to see great then try India or Indonesia or Central America or the Middle east or Egypt or Europe that was hardly great by any stretch of the imagination
@@cazrealist1 I'm saying the rewrite of history is unreal.
@@Bigbaz86 got ya and have to agree my apologies
@@cazrealist1 the salt is real 😂I know it hurts
why not restore this place it looks very nice
It's historic so it needs to be left natural
It is an extremely ancient site, probably reused over thousands of years. There are many ruins similar to it all over the world, especially in India. So since they have been ruined before modern history, no one would be able to properly restore it to its original glory, nor do we have the technology to do the sort of things with stone that the ancients were so skilled at.
amezing
Even though The Khoisans were the original people's of Southern Africa I do not think they were advanced enough technologically to build these structures this accomplishment i give to Bantus
It's a trading post built by Arab slavers.
@@rossevanricamara4169 no it wasn't why do you lie😂😂😂 I know it hurts
I would wager it was built before any modern peoples we know of today. There are ancient megaliths like this all over the world and even underwater.
Goood for u
As a rock climber, this is heaven for me
My feeling is that these are the remains of a civilization which flourished before the last series of major climatic events which resulted in an Ice Age. In much the same way as the Druids inherited Stonehenge, this monolithic Temple was inherited by the Shona people at a more recent time. The aerial view of Great Zimbabwe corresponds with many other circular structures from around the world which represent the Cosmic Serpent or Orobouros - a symbol meaning infinity and all natural cycles.
no, its been carbon dated to 1,000 years ago. Stop looking for theories that dispute our building it. i am from there and its been passed down our tradition how it was built
Please give me a break. This is claptrap.
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@@RodFleming-World Top of the morning to you too :))
They didn't come south this area is the first civilization period. Dr.Anti Diop
I used to go to Rhodesia to see the Zimbabwe ruins , now I go to Zimbabwe to see the Rhodesian ruins .
The Shona were NOT the founders of this kingdom . The Rozwe were and they came from the north long before the Shona first set foot in Zimbabwe . The San were there as the aboriginals since 20 000 years before the Shona and were either captured and used as slaves in the copper pits where they died within 3 years , or were killed or driven south to South Africa and the Kalahari Desert in Botswana . The copper was extracted and traded in Africa as well as on the east coast with Asians and Arabs.
lol racist liars. i come from there and we have our oral history. The rozvi are shonas too, the mutapas are shonas. Rozvi is a shona word. This is not the only structure. Search up the Khami ruins, there are several stone structures built by us
You fools are racists Zimbabwean ruins were built by Africans not Persians or Arabs stop lying..
Big liar you don't know about Shona history
I think your hostility towards the idea speaks volumes to the depth of your folly.
@@MarwaFamily888 Those ruins were adopted later by the migrating peoples such as the Shona . No one can explain the true purpose what it was built for . Remember it was originally an impenetrable stone structure with no doors or gates to go in . We have over 100 000 of them in the northern half of South Africa. Obviously much smaller . When you look at them from the air they look like flowers. The Bantu peoples who migrated into those areas used them as kraals and homes but not before breaking parts of the walls down to gain entry/ access into those stone structures. They are about 50 000 years old . The Bantus who live there even now say their forefathers built it for houses and cattle some generations before . They are wrong . Those structures were built for magnetic or other resonance energy to transport goods over long distances . The Zim ruins is lined up with a resonance site in SA , which in turn aligns them both with the pyramids in Egypt , they themselves being about 50 000 years old. Just look up the facts . Vuka !
This is not what a civilisation look like. They are similar sctructures in scotland, they are just habitations.
Agreed. Its a settlement thats all.
This is a megalithic structure. The only thing unremarkable about it is that it is not unusual to find megalithic fortresses like this on all continents. Everything else is astounding and much more mysterious than archeologists want you to think.
Its one of 200 ruins across the area it definitely was civilization.
No shit, it's ruins
Babbbbbbbbbies
Patronising crap.
Utter nonsense, utter drivel.
Can be... can be.... can be.... can you proof what do you saying??? PROOF IT . Only hypothesis, everything are questionable, and every affirmation can be rejected. So, Why no one curent tribe or civilization around this monument cannot do the same, even smaller ?? Show it. Talk is ease, do it is difficult.
Write Dina Stop smoking meth lady.
Write Dina So who made it then?
Write Dina Ever heard of Khami ruins? probably not. You're too busy being ignorant!
Write Dina ugly and stupid lol very common.
oh yeah ever heard of the nyanga type ruins ,natale ruins ,marondera ruins and danombe ruins in zimbabwe
There was lots of cities in pre Roman England and Scotland so on let’s re write history and the dictionary
No. There were settlements. Not the same.
A conglomeration of huts does not constitute as a city.
@@RodFleming-World Still butthurt? I guess the lady is you this time.
Great?
Lol
@The Mughal-killer racist fool stop lying..This one was built by black Africans
@@thatlchiponda3368 Very poor. It is not ancient either.
@@frankyvalley6945 tell the brits that stone henge is shit
They don't show enough of it. Archeologists want us to write off these megalithic sites as unimportant.
I dont expect lies from UNESCO please do your research before posting nonsense
What lies did they tell, historical expert?