[The Great Zimbabwe National Monument : ruins] Comment : Great Zimbabwe is a ruined city in the southeastern hills of Zimbabwe near Lake Mutirikwe and the town of Masvingo, close to the Chimanimani Mountains and the Chipinge District. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Zimbabwe during the country's Late Iron Age. Construction on the monument by ancestors of the Shona people began in the 11th century and continued until the 15th century.
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1 photograph : black-and-white negative, on glass, 6x13 cm stereoscopic photograph
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