‘Great Zimbabwe’ museum preserves ancient city

[@MissTam2000]

I visited once 15 years ago. I'd love to see it again one day.

[@Blindanddumb]

This is actually pretty awesome. I wonna visit it now.

[@АЛЕКСАНДРФИЛИПС-м6р]

I go now now

[@ashwinnmyburgh9364]

It is isn't it?

[@rosemariepowell5379]

My Husband and our two young children found by chance the Great Zimbabwe ruins. This was 1972. We had been told that it was built by Chinese migrants. We realised that this was a very ancient city and certainly not built by Chinese. We tried to find more information but as said at the time it was not recognised as being built by ancestors of the native tribe . It will always be a wonderful find on our journey through what was then Rhodesia.

[@joebloggs5318]

The Chinese would have built a far more impressive city than this ugly pile of rock.

[@evano5635]

@@joebloggs5318 stay pressed

[@freedomsibanda7419]

Amaizing

[@joebloggs5318]

@rdxer Yeah but look at the quality of the two side by side.

[@joebloggs5318]

@rdxer It's further proof of a lack of complex building in Africa. Most castles in the UK are ruins because people took the stone and used it elsewhere. I don't want to sound like a hater. If there really were great African civilisations I'd gladly go visit them.

[@gamalnassertv]

Based Zimbabweans, well done cousins, preserve your hsitory!

[@delgadojonesable]

wrong,it was built by Africans who traded with arabs through Zanzibar and the indian ocean trade routes,this was a highly advance culture with a central government headed by a royal high chief.

[@Bozewani]

Great Zimbabwe was build by Monomotapa during the 15th century Zimbabwe is the Shona word for stone enclosure

[@jasonyoung4529]

Roman Soiko it was built in the 800s

[@wandamaximoff7495]

Jason Young no 1000s

[@fightfannerd2078]

or built by Arabs with Africans who knows

[@delgadojonesable]

@@fightfannerd2078 we know our history!!

[@roflcopterkklol]

It was built in the 11th century and occupied an area of 740 hectares... The City obviously existed for a long time before the walls were built....

[@massimopozzessere5972]

I believe that the original structure is not from the Middle Ages but much older, probably dating back to the Bronze Age.

[@ashwinnmyburgh9364]

Nope, it dates from 1100 AD, aka, the medieval period. This doesn't make it any less important or impressive though.

[@massimopozzessere5972]

@@ashwinnmyburgh9364 I said it might insist on an older building, dating back to the Middle Bronze Age, reproducing its shape. You cannot fail to take note of the strong resemblance to Sardinian nuraghi, also present in northern Europe with the name of Brock or Dun depending on the size. They are works of the peoples of the sea including the Shardana and Tuatha de Danann. I do not exclude that between ancient Zimbabwe and the Mediterranean there was a trade route on a mining basis.

[@oliveroliver8760]

same architecture like in Peru with the chachapoyas

[@delgadojonesable]

thank you,for the info😊

[@muhammaduusmanfodiyodanafr457]

Third videos talking about Zimbabwe with no mention of Mugabe in one week, wow. I think the old man is dead

[@mutsawashemadziwa-sm5bo]

He died

[@oliveroliver8760]

this is like chachapoyas ruins

[@lozo4745]

This was way to short need more thankyou!

[@jarronhaleysorrell]

Trading goods before money was a thing 👍 Then someone came up with the idea of money and BOOM the ancient world was over 🤔

[@robchasing3140]

I hope this is a joke lol

[@emmanuel.m.4987]

I doubt africans made that. Civilization progresses forward not backwards. My question to Zimbabweans who thought they built that advanced structure is why their precolonial indeginous cultures currently live in huts not sky scrapers and why fellow bushmen like people can't build anything more advanced in the modern day

[@matthewmann8969]

Bantus made it not Khois not Sans not Cushites not Semites not Europeans etc

[@ronjayrose9706]

Agreed

[@ahmedopone4080]

True but there definitely was close trade links with the cushites. In fact the main port of the great Zimbabwe was Sofala which was founded by mogadhishans

[@eachmanforhimself3338]

Bantus genetically are a mixture of nilotic ,pygmy and san bushman. Few have khoikhoi DNA and west African DNA.

[@eachmanforhimself3338]

Bantus genetically are a mixture of nilotic ,pygmy and san bushman. Few have khoikhoi DNA and west African DNA.

[@jhelm1712]

Ancient village...

[@devinfoster9480]

200 meters long and 11 meters high but 200 square feet of stone ???

[@butlersracing7692]

They were advanced... What happened?

[@nword1380]

Guess

[@butlersracing7692]

@Warren Having been to this site along with many circle ruins around South Africa and neighboring countries can honestly say that the locals never built these. Another interesting thing which I found very interesting. I found evidence in a Cave in Montegu Western Cape which shows that the Arabs/Indians already journeyed South 1000s of years before history books. The circular rings as presented in the Museum in Cape Town are not weights for bushman tools. These rings as Michael Tellinger too has mentioned can be found along Gold trade routes. Possible Evidence of Ancient civilization far advanced and way before prescribed Chronology tells us.

[@butlersracing7692]

@Q S indeed they truly are... One too could imagine that they crossed paths with the Asians before which would explain alot of the archeological discoveries in an around these sites.

[@dokorobia8713]

@@butlersracing7692 I don’t see why not. They are humans. Humans build. It’s simple.

[@eachmanforhimself3338]

@@butlersracing7692 so please explain why there are locals still living in these settlements e.g nyahokwe in nyanga, in domboshawa Harare ....etc. I need a explanation. Why some of these ruins in Zimbabwe go back to 300 A.D even some of these iron age settlements go back to 500B.C. . Unless we leave on a separate planet.

[@chiherapowerchiheraspecial4770]

I hate the word Shona it's an English word .Great Zimbabwe was built by Karanga

[@LionClanChief]

Its not English it predates the English actually its an ethnic nickname according to some.

[@eachmanforhimself3338]

@@LionClanChief no shona is actually derived from what the ndebele (zulus) used to call the karanga, korekore, zezuru, manyika,ndau speaking people then later got adopted by the British they called all these people shona.

[@eachmanforhimself3338]

@@LionClanChief no shona is actually derived from what the ndebele (zulus) used to call the karanga, korekore, zezuru, manyika,ndau speaking people then later got adopted by the British they called all these people shona.

[@LionClanChief]

@@eachmanforhimself3338 I don't think so its believed to be from the Hindu work Sona which means gold because the Mutapa empire was known for gold trade, there are Shona or Karanga speaking people in Mozambique called Sena keep in mind our ancestors ruled that territory and the port of Sofala Arabs and Indians came to trade with the Somali and Swahili being Middle men in the gold trade. Thats the most convincing theory I've heard but it could be wrong. Plus why would Ndebeles make up that name what does it mean in their language?

[@ochiengoduor6843]

Guys, wake up.. Who by now doesn't know that the scripture was set in Africa with the promised land existing in modern day Southern Africa, parts of East Africa etc,so there's a great possibility that they don't want you to know that these ruins were an ancient city or town.... Wake up ppl

[@nnannani7188]

Ochieng Oduor listen to the prophecy of Kerry Ann Gidden about Zimbabwe

[@ronjayrose9706]

You need to stop worshipping a Jewish God theyre religion is brainwashing you

[@max3zizo]

This is the epitome of ignorance when people follow a religion just for the sake of their forefathers, without actually reasoning with the religion and the ideology it presents.

[@michaelmaps2004]

Or you kay also be the ignorant one telling other people how to live

[@Cautionarywhales-sr4jz]

You can talk about ignorance all you want but when youve lived in a mud shack your whole life with no electricity your bound to be ignorant on alot of things

[@followerofyah6041]

Interesting

[@guillaumerusengo9371]

Shonas never built a single stone structure in Zimbabwe. In fact they came in the 17th century way after the building. These were the creation of a sub-group of the kalanga people just like Mapungubwe, Domboshaba, Thulamela, Khami, Manyikeni, Ziwa,... and probably influenced Engaruka and Thimlich Ohinga further North. Adam's Calendar was probably the prototype that started it all.

[@ej4555]

They cannot be influenced by Engaruka or Thimlich because Engaruka dates the 15th century and Thimlich is 13th century. There are similar but small ruins in Zimbabwe, that date the 9th century. Look for Leopard Kopje...

[@leedza]

Who are the Shonas? As far as I know Shona is a group of intelligible dialects. Just like Kalanga and Nambya have a great degree of intelligibility with the Shona group. If speak of karangas, zezurus, rozwis maybe your point will come across better.

[@marimbaani9317]

you have no clue what you are talking about..

[@guillaumerusengo9371]

@David Harry-Ngonadi Groups have always been influenced or absorbed by other groups! The original karanga could be off different roots!

[@guillaumerusengo9371]

@David Harry-Ngonadi That they stop claiming the shonas built G Zimbabwe! There were different groups before them, akin to Vavhenda!

[@massimopozzessere5972]

In fact, I think the builders of the Great Zimbabwe were the Shardana (sumerian-akkadian word meaning "sons of strong lords"), the most important of the sea peoples coming from the italian island of Sardinia. This is supported by the strong resemblance of the structure to the nuragic sanctuary of "Santa Vittoria," also in Sardinia. The ancient Sardinians were great navigators and, in ancient times holding the monopoly of bronze in the Mediterranean sea, not only did they reach the coasts of the British Isles (specially Cornwall formerly known as "Danonia", the north of Scotland and Shetland islands) but circumnavigated the African continent and subsequently went up the Zambezi river in search of tin (useful for producing bronze), mineral of which Sardinia lacks.

[@cynem798]

We know our history . You are so delusional

[@massimopozzessere5972]

@@cynem798 Without disrespecting the great culture of your country, I invite you to carefully observe the Sardinian nuraghi with a characteristic truncated cone shape and to take note of their amazing architectural affinities with the archaeological complex in question. You will agree with me. Similar artifacts are found not only in your country but also, as said previously, in the british isles (Ireland, U.k.), as well as in Italy, south of Corsica, Albania (ancient city of Sarda), Spain (Malaga, Balearic islands), Portugal, Egypt, Sudan, Israel (site of El-Ahwat), Palestine (Jericho), Iraq, Jordan, Oman e Perù (Maukallaqta). Among other things, confirming that the shardana knew your lands well, there is proof of the bronzes of the ships with bows decorated with antelopes and gorillas, animals unknown in the Mediterranean at the time. Mine is not a dogma but only a hypothesis not to be discarded, given the uncertain origin of this site.

[@dokorobia8713]

@@massimopozzessere5972 But it’s not uncertain. The people who built it have always said that they did.

[@wanjikuroki2688]

😂😂😂😂

[@bethubiwott8355]

@Massimo pozzessere Why do white people don't want to admit that africas also built such civilisations? Hamitic hypothesis

[@joebloggs5318]

Pathetic. There are Scottish dry stone hill forts on the Shetland Islands that are not only bigger but a thousand years older. Around the same time as Greater Zimbabwe was built Europeans and Arabs were constructing buildings like Exeter cathedral and the mosque of Al-Sahibiyah in Aleppo.

[@blessingmasawi3616]

wow bro, you ok?

[@FlagWaverFlagBearer]

It must really anger you that the west is collapsing huh?

[@michaelmaps2004]

Did we ask ? Go and comment in scotland and Aleppo

[@W..949]

This structure was built by Arabs though right?

[@dinomike1513]

Archibald Maule Ramsay Only African artifacts are found at that site. No Arab artifacts , no european artifacts. Even the forme4 racist british colonizers had to concede that it is an African built structue

[@leedza]

Arabs never got to the central Zimbabwean plateau. Even the Portuguese historians confirmed this.

[@nword1380]

Why must it be built by arabs? Because You believe africans aren't capable of building stone structures? Or a powerful empire?

[@fightfannerd2078]

@@dinomike1513 those are recent though

[@abdulhakimahmed3262]

@Warren and Europe only emerged out of the dark ages after contact with arabs. Interesting don't you think? Dumbass