The ruins of Great Zimbabwe are a remarkable testimony to the former might of the ancient kingdom that bore the same name. The greatest stone monument in Africa south of the Sahara, Great Zimbabwe was ...

This notion persisted for centuries, right up until the monument's 19 th-century European ... The highest of Great Zimbabwe's walls soar 32 feet above the surrounding savanna.

Show more First transmitted in 1958, Sir Mortimer Wheeler explores the stone ruins of Great Zimbabwe National Monument, a mysterious site once thought to be the source of King Solomon's gold.