Great Zimbabwe

1871 German geologist-explorer Karl Mauch (1837 - 1875) reached Great Zimbabwe in Rhodesia (now, Zimbabwe, named after the mysterious ruined city), the ancient stone ruins he believed to be the location of the fabled Gold Mines of King Solomon, and state capital of the Queen of Sheba.

Mauch could not believe that the ancient temple ruins he found could have been built by Africans ...

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