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The Lost Gold of Great Zimbabwe: Mines, Trade, and Power
Gold built Great Zimbabwe. But the story is more complex than treasure hunting. This episode traces the gold trade from the ancient mines of the Zimbabwe Plateau to the Swahili coast and the Indian Ocean world. We look at how gold flowed through the hands of miners, middlemen, and kings, and how it shaped Great Zimbabwe's rise and fall. We meet the people who actually mined gold — the women and men who dug the shafts and crushed the ore — and we untangle the labor, the rituals, and the belief that gold was a gift from the ancestors. We also confront the darker side: the environmental…
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