Either way, archeological investigation has shown that the edifice's monumental walls did once enclose houses. Great Zimbabwe was a city, home at its heyday to some 12,000 to 20,000 people.

Monitoring methods have been devised to assess potential threats to the monuments, thanks to a special project funded by the British O.D.A. Subsequently, the rate of wall collapses declined ...

Four custodians ensure the maintenance work of Khami; they monitor the wall movements, police the site against ... and transferring the expertise acquired at the site of Great Zimbabwe." The ...

Mauch was looking at the greatest pre-Portuguese ruins of sub-Saharan Africa. The highest of Great Zimbabwe's walls soar 32 feet above the surrounding savanna. Unfortunately, Mauch, for all his ...