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Also Known As Zimbabwe • Great Zimbabwe National Monument

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Stone ruins of Great Zimbabwe with a large conical tower, surrounding stone walls, scattered stones, and trees growing above the ancient structure.
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Great Zimbabwe National Monument
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Stone walls and the tall, rounded Conical Tower stand among trees inside the Great Enclosure at the Great Zimbabwe ruins in Zimbabwe.
Narrow stone pathway curving between two high, ancient stone walls at the Great Zimbabwe Ruins National Monument in Zimbabwe, Africa.
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Great Zimbabwe complex
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Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe
country, Africa

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David Randall-MacIver
British-born American archaeologist and anthropologist
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Karl Mauch
German explorer
Gertrude Caton-Thompson
Gertrude Caton-Thompson
British archaeologist
Bent, James Theodore
James Theodore Bent
British archaeologist

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