08/21/2026
Nearly a thousand years ago, the ancestors of the Shona people constructed Great Zimbabwe, an 11-meter-high, 250-meter-long stone empire housing over 20,000 people, built completely without cement or mortar.
From advanced dry-stone engineering to thriving trade routes connecting to China and Persia, Great Zimbabwe proves African brilliance was never imported, it was engineered from the ground up.
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