The Mystery of Great Zimbabwe

Throughout the ages, whispered reports of the Queen of Sheba's stone palace were passed from sailor to sailor through the Portuguese ports. The later discovery of the ruins labelled Great Zimbabwe and their subsequent excavation has resulted in a wider respect for African sites. Moreover, the grave inaccuracies and miscalculations that took place in the excavation of Great Zimbabwe, has shocked the world into the realisation that prejudices and bigotry can be detrimental to the …

…mbabwe is doomed to remain there. The question of which African built it, whether or not it was utilised as a religious centre and why it was eventually abandoned are all question unable to be answered. The only fact that is supported by every new piece of evidence is that Whites did not build Great Zimbabwe, blacks did, but this definite answer only seems to deepen the mystery regarding the other as yet unanswerable questions.