GOLDEN BEAD
May Solve a Mystery The authorities at Zimbabwe, the ancient ruins in Southern Rhodesia, attach considerable importance to the recent discovery there of a soapstone bead, about two ii/ches long and half an inch wide, covered with fine beaten gold, secured to the stone bv minute gold rivets. This is the first of its kind to be found and may be of assistance to the archaeologists in their search for clues that may load to the unravelling of the mystery of the origin of the ancient temple and other great granite structures near Fort Victoria, which are known as the Great Zimbabwe. Stone beads, gold tacks, and fragments of gold sheets have been found there before, but never a gold-plated bead.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22741, 29 May 1937, Page 9 (Supplement)
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GOLDEN BEAD
New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22741, 29 May 1937, Page 9 (Supplement)
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