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Title: | Great Zimbabwe: a historiography and history: Carl Mauch and after: paper presented to mark the 150th birthday of Carl Mauch |
Author: | Munjeri, D. |
Year: | 1987 |
Periodical: | Heritage of Zimbabwe |
Issue: | 7 |
Pages: | 1-10 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Zimbabwe |
Subjects: | ruins Great Zimbabwe |
Abstract: | On the eve of 5 September 1871, the day that Carl Mauch (1835-1875) first set his eyes on Great Zimbabwe, all that the outside world knew of this monument was the little that the Portuguese had reported in the 16th and 17th centuries. Mauch confirmed the Portuguese hypothesis that this was Axuma, one of the cities of the Queen of Sheba. By the early 1900s, however, archaeologists began to counter this romantic theory and evidence was produced for the African origin of the ruins. This paper discusses the significance of Mauch's data, post-Mauch scientific research, the history of Great Zimbabwe from c. AD 1300, and the factors contributing to the rise and fall of Great Zimbabwe. Ref. |