Garlake believes the Great Enclosure, which encircles a series of smaller stone walls and a Conical Tower shaped like a stone beehive, was "almost certainly a royal residence." While the site was ...

Meanwhile, the Great Enclosure—a massive dry-stone structure, some walls of which reach 11 meters (36 feet) in height—likely ...

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 ...

Great Zimbabwe was built between 1,200 and 1,500 A.D., long before foreigner penetrated into the continent. In the great stone enclosures, the famous bird sculptures were found, whose exact ...

The first whispered reports of a fabulous stone palace in the heart of southern ... And therefore, the Great Enclosure—the edifice's most impressive structure, which local Karanga called ...