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Great Zimbabwe: The Lost African Kingdom of Stone
In this pilot episode, we journey to the towering stone ruins of Great Zimbabwe, a medieval African kingdom that dominated trade routes between the interior and the Indian Ocean coast. Lucas and Luna explore the city's massive, mortarless stone walls—the largest ancient structures in sub-Saharan Africa—and the iconic soapstone birds that became a national symbol. Who built this city? When did it flourish, and why was it abandoned? We dive into the competing theories, the deliberate colonial erasure of its African origins, and how Great Zimbabwe forces us to rethink the narrative of…
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