History Mystery: Ancient Kingdom of Zimbabwe stones

Great Zimbabwe ruins employer who? Why is this kingdom in decline? It still is a mystery no explanation for historical researchers.

In 1868, a delegation of European explorers traveled to Africa have accidentally discovered a desolate rock in the vast Zimbabwe. This monument is called the "Great Zimbabwe" and quickly became popular throughout the world later time.

It has the huge stone structures from the 12th century, but most have been damaged, but retains the majestic grandeur of an architectural ensemble built by a powerful kingdom.

The heart of the Great Zimbabwe ruins is a large oval citadel. Buildings are built of small stones with technical sawn very high, do not need to do any adhesive. Walls punctuated by three gates.

Inside of a rich architectural ensemble with the walls, the remains of houses, palaces, steles, tunnels, wells, especially those high stone tower cone characteristics that so far human gut I have yet to decipher the meaning.

Since its discovery, many myths have been Europeans covered up the Great Zimbabwe ruins.

They said that Great Zimbabwe was the land with gold mines of King Solomon is mentioned in the Old Testament. Defending wall here was built simulation style that King Solomon built the palace on Mount Molia.

This myth has resulted in disaster for the unique monuments Africa.

A gold rush of Europeans has exploded at the University of Zimbabwe. They hired local people along with advanced mechanical means, proceed to dig through the ruins with a depth of up to 3m.

Unseen gold, the Europeans did reveal a lot is so precious, including the texts of the ancient civilization built the Great Zimbabwe. All of them were lost in the market before the scientists can conduct research.

Official excavations continued later revealed a large amount of artifacts including weapons, work tools and some jewelry was crafted very sophisticated and beautiful. Some of which are taken from Chinese, Arabic, Persian and even from ancient India.

This shows that Great Zimbabwe had cultural exchanges, trade with Asia from ancient times as a commercial center south of Africa.

Until this, the Great Zimbabwe kingdom employer is, why the decline of the kingdom remains a mystery is not the solution for historical researchers.

According to Knowledge