RHODESIAN RUINS.
PRINCE ASKS QUESTIONS
GAPE! TOWN, July 3
The Prince is now .shooting amidst the wildest surroundings and the most beautiful country of Central Rhodesia. Yesterday he visited the mysterious ruins of Zimba.we, and wondered at the 16ft. thickness of the base walls. The Prince .hail tea on the site of the supposed great town, commanded by a fortress, and discussed with the curator the origin of these relics of a bygone civilisation, of which not even native tradition can suggest an explanation.
The ruined granite structures, at. Ziinbawe, erected .probably before the Christian era, have since their discovery by Renders in 1868, where no white man bad previously trod, been a source of widespread interest. One. theory is that the district, in some dim, distant past, was the densely-peopled metropolis of a Phoenician or Saibaean colony. Only the structures on the bills and higher elevations remained visible, but excavations have, revealed a huge mysterious temple, several villas, an ingeniously constructed bill citadel and signs of a large city buried in the vicinity.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 17 July 1925, Page 9
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174RHODESIAN RUINS. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 17 July 1925, Page 9
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