The Great Enclosure of Great Zimbabwe is the largest pre-colonial structure in the whole of Sub-Saharan Africa. It was a statement of majesty, power, wealth, and architectural genius.

Great Zimbabwe covers 1,779 acres, and the central area comprises three main built-up areas: the Hill Complex, the Great Enclosure and the smaller Valley Ruins.

In a landscape of giant boulders is the ruined town of Great Zimbabwe. It’s part of a kingdom that flourished almost 1,000 years ago, and a bridge to the past.

Great Zimbabwe was a city that flourished between the 10th and 15th centuries A.D. The ruins contain numerous stone enclosures with soaring walls that were made without mortar.

The Great Enclosure is the largest single prehistoric structure south of the Sahara. Looking from the air like a giant gray bracelet, its elliptical Outer Wall is more than 800 feet long and ...

The Great Enclosure wall at the Great Zimbabwe Ruins. Photo: DeAgostini / Getty Images. Great Zimbabwe’s first stones were laid around 900 C.E., and construction lasted 300 years.

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.

The stone city of Great Zimbabwe is recognised as the largest ancient structure in Sub-Saharan Africa, and its Great Enclosure remains its masterpiece, second only to Egypt’s Great Pyramids as ...

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.

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.