Ziwa Ruins

Zimbabwe


These National Monument ruins of communities who specialised in pottery date to AD 200 and are one of Zimbabwe's more impressive archaeological sites. The terraced hills are from ensuing agricultural communities from the 1500s. There's a museum, along with relics from a fort, furnaces and pit enclosures.


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