still stains the soil within Great Zimbabwe a robust red color. While few traces of the mud houses remain, the towering stone walls stand in mute testimony to the city's former greatness.

Perhaps this is what makes the ruins so speculative and intriguing. Like most of Great Zimbabwe, the stone walls and passages within the hillside complex were never meant to rise above the ...

The first whispered reports of a fabulous stone palace in the heart of southern ... The highest of Great Zimbabwe's walls soar 32 feet above the surrounding savanna. Unfortunately, Mauch, for ...