In 1871 Karl Mauch, a German,
discovered a huge stonewalls in Zimbabwe, Africa. The walls covered 25 hectares
around what is now called ‘Great Zimbabwe'. Great Zimbabwe is the most
impressive Iron Age site in Africa. On top of a hill, there is a large castle
and under neath this is the ‘Great Enclosure'. The Great Enclosure has enormous
walls – sometimes 11 metres high and 1.2 metres thick. Inside the Great Enclosure
there are many huts, passages and rooms and a mysterious 9-metre-high stone
tower that has no stairs, no windows, and no doors. Why did they build the
tower? We don't know. We don't even know who built Great Zimbabwe – it is a
mystery to African and foreign archaeologists. They think the Great Enclosure
was built about 1,000 years ago.
Taken from Cambridge
English for Schools, 2000
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