The early explorers of the late nineteenth century attributed the monumental ruins of Great Zimbabwe to the Phoenicians.

It seemed impossible to the white colonists that Africans could be responsible for such impressive architecture.

But archaeologists - even at the risk of exile - have been setting the record straight.

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