The article describes the history of Greater Zimbabwe, from the erroneous interpretations by European explorers such as Karl Mauch in the 19th century, to the plundering excavations of colonial companies, to the scientific recognition of the African origins and the symbolic meaning of the ruins for independent Zimbabwe, with the eight soapstone birds becoming the national emblem.
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Greater Zimbabwe was a major medieval city in southern Africa, built between the 11th and 15th centuries by the ancestors of the Shona people, and was a center of trade, politics and culture.
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