I enjoyed your video. You may wish to extend your research to cover the Sphinx of Giza. A reconstruction of the face of Giza suggests a face of an African person with an extended lower jaw bone. This is typical in some African groups such as the Bakongo (E.g. see a picture the sculpture of a Bakongo lady by by British sculptor and African explorer Herbert Ward.) That is, the Bakongo may be the descendants of the builders of the Sphinx and other structures in Egypt. The Bakongo lie directly to the West of the Zimbabwe where they reside in Angola and Congo. It is possible that the Bakongo took their expertise of building/sculpture in Egypt down to Southern Africa, and may have been the builders of the Great Walls of Zimbabwe.
@@kenyareads6918 , I ve got a little theory that the descendants of the Egyptian pyramid-builders and pharoes are the Nilotics, like the Dinka, Maasai, Nuer etc.. Check out the profiles of the pharoes compared to the Nilotic people .
This documentary is amazing! As a Brazilian, I feel that we don't know enough about the empires of Africa, commonly people just refer to it as "africans", they don't even know the names of the countries and the glorious history behind it, that's a shame for us. The entire continent is incredible, the humanity was "born" there. I'm happy to know more about Zimbabwe after this video, and I'll search more about the another African nations. And, hello to zimbabweans
There are two theories according to Wikipedia The name contains dzimba, the Shona term for "houses". There are two theories for the etymology of the name. The first proposes that the word is derived from Dzimba-dza-mabwe, translated from the Kalanga dialect of Shona as "large houses of stone" (dzimba = plural of imba, "house"; mabwe = plural of bwe, "stone"). A second suggests that Zimbabwe is a contracted form of dzimba-hwe, which means "venerated houses" in the Zezuru dialect of Shona, as usually applied to the houses or graves of chiefs. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Zimbabwe#Name Though house(s?) of stone seems more likely.
@@NKiani Thankyou for clarifying, I guess the film makers chose the more romantic name. Within archeological circles' at least in England anyway, they use the terms 's' word and 'r' word for 'sacred' and 'ritualistic' because discovering ancient structures in Britain that could be temples is extremely rare.
what most people r not aware of is that there are many mini-versions of great zimbabwe scattered across zimbabwe like Khami ruins, Tsindi, Danan’ombe, etc
As a Zimbabwean I can share and add that; Dzimba(houses) bwe (stone) Zimbabwe means the great house (Zimba) of bwe(stone). So the word has a literal and a figurative meaning The people being the houses of stone. Meaning that the people carry the divine (Rock Eternal/Almighty God) within them. So for the simple minded who do not quite understand African spiritualism, hold onto houses of stone. However Zimbabweans are intently spiritual people like most Africans and in Shona most words/statements have literal and profound figurative meanings. If you understand that and also know that in Zimbabwe we have the Lemba(Black Jews) then you may understand that Zimbabwe refers to the being who is human but has a divine eternal spirit inside them.
You are enlightened... let me start by saying that these colonial labels like Zimbabwean, Mozambican, South African etc are rubbish and for the brainwashed and sleeping folk. All Bantus are the real people of the Book, The Most High's people in our different ( greater 12) tribes. "Zimbabwe" is more closer to 'Zimba ra Yahuah', 'Zimba raYahweh', similarly Zambia, Gambia, Tanzania , etc many if not most Bantu (Israelite) nation names have coincidentally or not the name of or reference to the Father "Yah" in them
We are the infinte and all given the skin light conductor yes we are great but we must be black=99.9 percent light receiver and truly understand and nurture fear and darkness to see the all that nurtures every single hue man my mothers middle name is human are i humanyari my family even in my names have been given knowledge it is simple darkness is just light unknownin of itself nurture and understand that as humans we don’t die we are the infinte all
What many people don't know is there are several other small ruins dotted around Zimbabwea. These are like provinces to the great Zimbabwe. There is Khami, Naletale and many more.
@@thabanikasenzela9338 size mostly the other thing is the natives of Zimbabwe the shona major city was built in masvingo province where the great enclosure lay ...artifacts which have been found date that that was the oldest city built in the sub sahara ..southern region the second in Africa coming after the Egyptian pyramids .....so to date it was the first in zim and largest and that's where the shona king resided ...so the others can be presumed as satellite cities or provinces as she presumed ...
Could they have come from the late bronze age when the middle east when most of the major cities of civilation were distroyed by the so called sea people. 14 BC..
@@georgejackson5951 The ruins were built up until around the 19th century. So if they were middle eaterners there would be at least some genetic footprint.
@@georgejackson5951 gtfoh with your White supremacist ideaology. You yt people always claim Black African achievments as yt or "middle eastern" (that's two directions NOT a people). Bantus built this. Just like how Kushites built Egypt and Nubia.
@Sikra Sikra ... Smh; when an WHAT actually is an ACCOMPLISHMENT that is or HASN'T been STOLEN or rather NAMED by its THIEVERY Convention in which a MURDEROUS people come. TRICKERY an DECEIT forms that FORKED TONGUE... Boy until the LION writes the story of the safari you shouldn't expect the TRUTH nor anything FACTUAL from THOSE whom are in places that cant be SUBSTANTIALLY Affected by ALTERNATE reality.
Don't hate all white people. I'm white and I know society's racist lies to hide black achievement, don't think all white people are like that we need to unify together as people of all color who are humans and fight the racists demonic plot to ruin mankind
Just look at how wonderfully managed black African countries are today...why are they making every effort to get out of Africa...and into the UK...why...
@@grasonicus tell that to hundreds of Europeans and people of European descent that either practice Africa music or wear African clothes and hairstyles,eat African foods or just practice some form African culture
@@ronjayrose9706 Not sure I understand this. Is the idea that someone loses a "heritage" if it is shared with others? If so, that is really a really weird thing to think. Anyway, every single living human has African heritage in the sense that we all have ancestors who lived in what we today call Africa.
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I am very surprised at all the hate here.I am Zimbabwean and close to this ancient city is where I was born as were all my ancestors before me.How can I not be proud?
Not the entirety of ancient egypt was built by aliens, the pyramids were, since for the ancient people at this time it should not have been so easy to construct the largest building ever in humankind over the course of less than 2 decades if I remember correctly. Also, what does being a "great" civilisation have to do with Aliens?
It’s a shame what happened to them, It would be so interesting to see a group of Africans who had not experienced colonization or contamination in anyway and to see how they would develop other than Ethiopia.
Its not a lost city or civilization, its a place with a rich hertage of the Shona people, through oral tradition there is ample evidence on the culture and tradition of ancestors of the Shona who built thjis sacred place.
What a heart breaking waste! Makes me so angry. Imagine the amazing heritage, history and stories lost. I can’t wait for the day we can recover them all! I am a proud Zimbabwean! Especially proud of our heritage of amazing sculptures and the proud soapstone Chapungu on our flag.
They came from the sea with greed in their eyes and hatred in their hearts and violence in their hands. This reminds me of how Minister Pik Botha destroyed Mapungubwe archeological sites in apartheid South Africa to wipe out any trace of black origins
The same thing that happened with the Great Zimbabwe Ruins, when it comes to cover ups, is the same thing that happened AND still is around today in Egypt. The truth of Africans being able to build advanced structures and civilizations, is being covered up by racism.
@@scottsanders4589 Europeans in ancient times in Africa?,I disagree Scott go and dig deeper Ancients Egyptians were black and the name Egypt is not real
@@trymoremutasa8398 also when did I ever say the Egyptians were European? What I said was, non Nubian Egyptians were genetically closer to Europeans then to Africans. Don't try to put words in someone else's mouth when you can barely read and write
@@scottsanders4589 yes it is true. The nubians are from sudan and everyone in sudan is black. Sudan mean land of blacks and land of sun and moon worshippers. The original peoples of ancient egypt are Batwa as stated many times by pharaohs. Another people are the black Sudanese people. The Luo, Azande, and the Bakuba peoeole are from Nubia and their technology(weaponry) backs it up. Many of us here in the USA are Kinupe who are ancient Napata people and the Yoruba have similar origins. So yes that means that even black Americans are descendants of Nubians as west Africa is West Sudan culturally and geographically.
@@vtecnegro85 Clutching at straws here, Former Martian. West Africa is hundreds of kms from Nubia & most American blacks originate from West Africa & the Congo basin, NOT from the Sudan. btw-Ancient Egyptians were NOT black, although some Nubians lived amongst them. DNA proves that Egyptians were mainly related to other Middle-Eastern people, with some European blood.(Mummies with red or blond hair?). We cannot tell what colour their eyes were, but they made many wooden statues with BLUE eyes. Why? Stop trying to claim other people's culture.
Everyone should be proud of where their ancestors are from. If your ancestors are from Zimbabwe be proud of it. Let me be clear, I am white, I am proud my ancestors were English, Irish, Scottish, and French. I am proud of that. If your of African descent be proud of it. We don’t need to hate each other, or say we should be ashamed of our ancestors.
Africa was once the trading centre of the world, had a great king called mansamusa richest man in the world at the time. when he died british went in his gold mine and plunder it.
I can't believe some of the petty people in the comments with their spamming. "Zimbabwe so great today!" "So great country Mugabe made it!" What does that have to do with the kingdom who built these immense stone constructions? How are they at fault for modern Zimbabwe? I detest Mugabe, but I'm not such an idiot that I'll start spamming a documentary video about an old kingdom in Zimbabwe that predates all this, which built vast stone constructions to such an extent that people in the coming centuries were left puzzled, because there was nothing like them elsewhere in Southern Africa (flaring up peoples imagination and making them think that surely these constructions must relate to biblical King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba or somesuch).
My heart bleeds as a Zimbabwean because those ruins were destroyed by colonialists . The ruins dates back to 11th century. The city was never lost to us its people.
@@Based_location Rhodesia is what you colonizers called it when you came to our land, murdered, raped and killed my people because of Greed and envy of what was not yours.
@@scottsanders4589 of course your cool with it. Now, we all see their point even more. Don't fret, they will prevail these are better men. ruclips.net/video/lnC9UsZjsTU/видео.html
@@scottsanders4589 I'm doing very well on my 30 hectares of land. I have a 10 bedroom home with a massive pool and I eat fresh chicken, eggs, bacon, potatoes, maize every day. Life is good Scott. We are working on feeding the rest of the nation. I don't know which media outlet has lied to you about no famine. I can send you some fresh food mate. Inbox me
@@janaoh5785 the same way the Germans and the French and Euro people laid claims to portions of land in Europe. It'd've been odd if a bunch of Afro melaneted people also claimed say England.
@@modikana9756 www.thepatriot.co.zw/old_posts/similarities-between-shona-and-shemitic-languages-part-one-founders-of-the-human-race-were-blacks/ its just a tip of the iceberg
@@wunganayigrastianmasiyiwa4138 there's strong evidence that we are Hebrews its sad that the majority of zimbo's are still in ancestral worship but it will come a time that they will wake up to know their heritage
Thank you for the documentary, these ruins are a sacred heritage to the present day people of Zimbabwe. Most of the cultural practices and rites from the Great Zimbabwe are still being practiced today.ITS NOT A LOST CITY, ITS A WORLD CLASS HISTORICAL SITE. STOP THAT MISREPRESENTATION OF FACTS.
@@grasonicus My brother through our tradition and history we know our ancestors built this shrine, the westerners are just trying to disrupt our history.We know who did these great works and the purpose it serves up to now.All that is unknown to outsiders.Its not about archeology or science here , it's about heritage and culture.Everything written by non natives about this place is a farce, a big lie.We know the truth and we shall preserve it.
@@louwsaviour6475 Nobody disputes that blacks built Zimbabwe ruins. But exactly who built it and what their language was (they left no records) and their customs were are all speculation. This absence of written records is what decided most people the ruins must have been built by people who could not write. It's impossible to 'just know' things. One needs evidence.
@@grasonicus That's why I told you that it's not about archeology or science, you are not a Zimbabwean by birth and I can't disclose to you the evidence that this is a heritage of our ancestors, you are always blinded by written records, your western archeologists came and for many years tried to destroy artefacts and structures to disprove the evidence that our ancestors built the shrine. Go to Timbktu in Mali, Meroe in Sudan, and Giza Egypt, then you can see that civilization originated here in Africa. Westerners have tried to hypothesise on the existence of Great Zimbabwe but all what they did to us is a laughing matter.We just do not listen to their nonsense discussions and writings that are racial and full of prejudice.
I just watched a BBC documentary of Great Zimbabwe of a Black host that was a good show. He pointed out the exact same thing meaning "Houses of Stone". Thanks for the linguistic break down.
Literally it means that, but Zimba means a big house, and it symbolically means ritual and spiritual sacredness.Bwe or buwe means shone, which symbolises stability and dignity in a race or tribe. Ancient African rulers used to to have sits Madrid stone, especially granite and marble
Not sure what you mean Lori. Yes there is a Jewish tribe in Zimbabwe, the Lemba but -there are descendants of Jewish tribes all over the world. Many muslims are in fact the descendants of the lost tribes, so are the British and the Northwest Europeans; Palestinians are descendants of Jews that converted; Afghans, Uzbeks all contain large numbers of lost tribe descendants.
@@janaoh5785 Sure Jana I would naturally be referring to the (K)Congo tribes. Are you sure yet. They were never scattered they left and hid in Zimbabwe. Yes of course Jana the Hebrew Israelites were indeed scattered to the 4 quarters of the earth!
Of course there's plenty more including a plate inscribed with a Zimbabwean written language stolen by Rhodes. Yet you're lied to that you never had any written language prior to the colonisers coming
@@frankkotte117 research about the original statue of solomon which is kept in the history vaults in Israel and get back to me . Tell me how he looks like 😉
We are all humans, and brothers and sisters. White, black there is good and bad in our history. Because there is good and bad in humans. I am part West African and part Same (an indigenous partly nomadic people from the northern parts of Scandinavia), part Finnish and there are indian people, jews, italian people and turks in our multi-ethnical family. But when all is said and done we are all just humans. Just humans. Our mixed blood binds us together and love keeps us together. My forefathers in West Africa became slaves, they became colonized by the French and all these things, and my Same people still do not have our land back that the Swedish and Norwegians took from us. My grandmothers generation (Same-people) was taken from their parents at the age of 7 and sent away to learn Swedish and Swedish traditions by force. Humans can be very evil to one another. And yes, it seems like it very often are so called caucasian that do this bad things. But Africans do bad things to fellow Africans to. I understand that it is a bad thing when white people think they can tell the history of other people. But it is time for us, Africans, native Americans, Same people and all other to star telling our own history to the world. I am a Historian, I have a university degree and I do just that. Not to tell the world that my people are better than other, but just to give my people a voice. Bless you my fellow human being in the world. (and sorry for bad English)
Prejudical ignorance hovers like a plague to human consciousness. It is a loathsome state that requires a true higher minded state to apply Compassion upon it -
Agreed. Very unbalanced. With a Degree in History, I look for a balanced review. Colonization had its dark side, but also its light side with clean running water etc. The Romans colonized Britain, but they maintain a much more positive approach to that fact. In fact, if you look on RUclips at all the invaders and colonizers of Britain after the Romans left, it is mindboggling.
Oh, please. Unbalanced? All of the lies that are being uncovered and you are calling something unbalanced. But when you are able to control the narrative, you can rewrite history as you have done so well and lie in real time as what is being done now to people all of the world.
Yes, and the proof is that Zimbabweans have made ruins of Zimbabwe again as it is now bankrupt with no running water or electricity in Harare. Roads are falling apart with massive holes and if you look at the constant decay they are all going back to the stone age at a rapid rate. Everyone still blames white men, you know the one with the intelligence that made this country the breadbasket of the world before Mugabe took over.
@@FunFunFun8888 oh, please... Africans have been colonised and taught to despise themselves for generations thanks to colonisation what can you expect. It will take time for the politics and mindset to develop again from scratch.
I was born in Zimbabwe of mixed race parents.Subjected to racism all my life from both Black and White. Therefore I feel that I can present an unbiased alternative theory as to the origins of the builders of this place. In the video I detected some anomalies for example the name of the place originates from the corruption of the word dzibawe meaning stone ruins. The complex is an astronomical observatory, similar to all the stone circles found at many ancient sites all over the world, e.g. Stonehenge and the so called prayer circles of North America and many more too numerous to mention. For one, the local people do not have a history of the study of astronomy. If at all, they do, could someone please correct me. One point that may prove that the complex is an observatory is to look at a structure on a hill called The Three Granaries , which are not traditional granaries but alignment points to mark the solstices and the equinox.
Actually your alleged mixed race heritage makes you the worst person to speak on this and no where near unbiased. You prove this by your use of the words "alternative theory". That pretty much proves my point.
@@davidwilliams658 - No, that just makes hella confused. How are you "mixed" if you were "born to white parents." And the fact that you think you even experience "racist" from "everybody" proved you don't even know what it is. FYI: Only African/black parents can give birth to "white" babies white parent's can't birth "black/African" babies. Now I have no idea what you're talking about. Do us all a favor and STFU, grown folks are taking to have a conversation.
@@nialcc i was making a joke, calm down, sort out your weave, i was mocking the 1st comment and yourself silly woman go play with your dolls, men are talking! lol
This is what has been hidden, Solomon never existed. Yet THUTMOSES III did exist and he is the true author of the so-called proverbs of Solomon. Besides, haven't you ever heard of the temple of (SOL) & (OMON) TEMPLE OF THE SUN AND THE MOON. Remember these people got tricks for the thoughts inside your mindset. Mindset, meaning program control over you with false no history because these people never existed.
Where are the custodians of this great kush civilization, have they any ties to this great works ??? OoThixo bootata baphi?, mungu wa wazee wangu muko wapi???
i totaly agree with most views,why they insists on telling our history,telling us who we are and ancestors,we know the history,we are not allowed to tell it,but we know afrika is one of the strongest and most resourceful....AFRIKA will regain its position..BELIEVE THAT and will tell you
Damn I didn't know that, 98% literacy? If I remember correctly your country had a great ruler who really kicked off the zimbabwean economy with diamons and such. He probably also made a lot of efforts on education. On another note, I can't think of any zimbabwean Great Minds?
21:15 "Great Zimbabwe is today a monument to a mighty African society that thrived as Europe languished." Lol what? What events in 14th/15th century Europe is he referring to? When I think of that period the resurgence of culture and the sciences spreading from Italy across the continent and the reconquista in Spain and subsequent discovery/conquest of the Americas?
@Racialist Slayer From wikipedia: "Construction of the stone buildings started in the 11th century and continued for over 300 years." So in other words, the contruction was not finished untill the 14th century. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Zimbabwe
@@janruudschutrups9382 construction started around 900A.D to 1000A.D it was it was finished around 1100A.D that its peak until the 1200A.D. then around early 1400A.D the decline started 1450A.D A Prince named nyatsimba mutota moved north is search of salt then established the munhumutapa dynasty.
@@shanewalkingdead8258 Not to dispute your facts about Great Zimbabwe but my question was aimed at the presenter's claim that at the height of Great Zimbabwe Europe was somehow in a state of decline. I'd like to know what he means by that since Europe during the late Middle Ages was anything but in decline.
Dzimba- means houses and dzemabwe means stones in plural. "bwe" or "Ibwe" means one stone in Karanga people from Masvingo. In Zezuru "bwe or "Ibwe" means "dombo" . They destroyed and looted our heritage calling themselves explorers - archaeologists and keeping our artifacts in their museums! It is really sad!! Proud of my heritage my lineage and the "Nyanda" (Masvingo) region!!
Actually, it's my opinion that the true mystery at Great ZImbabwe is in the ancient burials left by those who once inhabited the city. There aren't any. A few chiefs a few centuries old were buried on the Hill Complex & removed, much to the distress of the local Africans about a hundred years ago. But no large burial or cremation sites in the surrounding area have ever been discovered. This makes for an interesting conundrum. The dating for the city suggest that it was founded around a thousands years ago, thrved for around five hundreds years & was abandoned suddenly about five hundred years ago. It was then discovered by westerners about four hundred years ago. So, let's assume that Great Zim was built &remained a city full of people for around five hundred years. If that's true then many tens or hundreds of thousands of people must have lived & died in the city & around it. The problem is, no-one has been able to find any evidence of their burial or cremation. So either the dating is wrong & the site is actually so old that all those buried in the surrounding area are lost to time, or those who abandoned the city five hundred years ago took all their dead with them...
Hmm interesting observation. And if the city thrived and traded for 500 years around the medieval period it's a little strange no other civilization seems to have any records of trading with Zimbabwe. Its a shame that guy destroyed so much of the site, probably took away so many answers to our questions.
@@anntomelton8167 There were civilisations all over Africa during the time of Great Zim, this wasn't Africa's medieval period, medieval is a timepoint that explains europe's evolution, or lack of. Also the plundering of great Zim is a story that happened all over Africa, so that's where the 'records' would have got to.
Am kenyan, kikuyu tribe to be specific...but today i had a dream about this specific place,and Africa at large...i was being shown the African map,zoomed into my eyes was 3 countries which i thought was Israel...but the map was zoomed back and The whole map of Africa was Written* Israel *with some parts of middleEast...and due to my shock ,words tgat came out of my mouth was"THIS EXPLAINS THE ZIMBAMBWE RUINS*(though in the dream i sauid zambia ruins making me wonder the connection between the two countries)....So in Short i came directly to youtube to find research about the ruins and here iam🙏...LET EVERY ZIMBABWEAN KNOW THEIR COUNTRY IS A BIBILICAL SITE.... hopefully one day i will come n visit and pray there cuss God revealed this to me with a reason yet iam miles away in middle East now..
Charles Nyeke Shona people are Bantu. Before maps and invisible borders kingdoms and bloodlines spread wider than we were taught. I’ll never forget the feelings of walking through those ancient walls, the air was chilly like spirits were still there. It was something special.
l toured the Zimbabwe Ruins over forty years ago. At that time the country was called Rhodesia. The (white) guide told us at the time that these ruins were built by local Africans. Why is everyone getting their knickers in a knot over all this? They have found Chinese pottery & Arabian coins there but believe that this was from trade. Nobody knows the name of the tribe or group who built it. And while we are on the subject DNA has proved that an African tribe called the Lemba have substantial Jewish ancestry. This is thought to come from centuries later when Jewish traders penetrated up the rivers to trade. Nothing to do with the Zimbabwe Ruins. lt is thought that the first Europeans to "find" the ruins were the Portuguese in the 16th century.
I read the comments below with people bickering about who built Egypt. Here is the bottom line: Africans have more diversified gene pool than any other race in the world (please fact check). Original settlers of Australia were black skin (fact check). Original settlers of Britain were Black skin (please! Fact check), the oldest civilization in the Americas were the Olmec (thick lip negroed features). Thousands of years ago, Africans that went into Europe eventually started developing brittle bones because melanin didn't allow for absorption of sunlight needed to produce vitamin D which in turn helps with the production of calcium (fact check) leading to the loss of melanin hence caucasoid features. The oldest settlers of Japan were Black skin (fact check). Conclusion: it would amount to sheer arrogance on anyone's part to imply or attempt to make the argument that civilization (whichever one) was founded by light skinned people. Caucasians, West indians, Asians, Mediterraneans and Semites came from the melanated people as a result of genetic adaptations. Please please let's stop this deliberate attempt at white washing everything. I really don't care who built great Zimbabwe, you are all Africans period.
The original name for Zimbabwe was Dzimbahwe meaning sacred place. Zimbabwe is a modern name meaning house of stones. Understand the two. Most of their sacred places are in mountains or hills of stones. Look at Domboshava, Njelele shrine, Zame etc
The Lemba, some of whom descend from 1st Century CE Jewish Temple Priests who migrated into Africa and down to the Zimbabwe and South Africa Limpopo borderland region claim they built it. According to NOVA Magazine: "Many tribes, including the Shona and Venda, maintain that their ancestors were responsible for Great Zimbabwe, but the Lemba are "particularly insistent," says University of London scholar Tudor Parfitt. "They claim that one of their clans, the Tovakare, were the actual builders of Zimbabwe," Parfitt says. "They even call them Tovakare Muzimbabwe, which means 'the ones that built Zimbabwe.'" Certain evidence appears to support the Lemba claim. For instance, unlike other Bantu tribes, who bury their dead in a crouched posture, the Lemba bury theirs in an extended position, as did the ancient Zimbabweans. One of the strongest pieces of evidence concerns trade, Parfitt says. "Great Zimbabwe was a civilization that was constructed very largely on wealth generated from cattle and trade. And given that for hundreds of years we know the Lemba were the great traders of southern Africa, it seems almost certain that their ancestors would have been involved in this trading nexus between Great Zimbabwe and the Indian Ocean." "The mystery of Zimbabwe is the mystery which lies in the still pulsating heart of native Africa." If the Lemba contention is true, does this mean that outsiders-that is, not native Africans-built Great Zimbabwe? After all, the Lemba have Semitic origins (see Tudor Parfitt's Remarkable Quest). The answer is no, because by the time Great Zimbabwe was built in medieval times, the Lemba had become decidedly African, having so thoroughly intermixed with Bantu Africans over many hundreds of years that today, among other African traits, the Lemba have dark skin and speak a Bantu language." Source: www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/mysteries-of-great-zimbabwe/
Yep, you are right. Without colonialism they would be living in bliss. Granted without any education,health,with tribal wars or even inventing the wheel. Such heaven on earth.Perhaps you should read up on Shaka, and other related subjects.
....oh do tell me about prejudice of blacks v whites in Africa right now. True modern day African fascists and racists are the black people themselves!!!... fact.
I am highly interested in the History of African Civs, since I am a citizen of South Africa and a lover of history and culture. Wish to expand my knowledge on places in Africa that I have been (such as Mapongupwe) as well as places that I am yet to visit, (Egypt, Sudan,Libya, Algeria) . I try to find as credible sources as possible and wish to know less Propoganda and more fact. .....video starts with anti European/Anti colonialism racist statement that I have NEVER heard of. ..(oh boy 😒)
Obviously your not that interested in history , just the sanitized version eh. Well welcome to reality. History comes with baggage. No need to get upset by it. I take it you spend a fair bit of time on social media, sure sounds like it lmao. You want facts ? you can't handle the facts.
scorp NZ nope, I don't care for social media, I prefer to read books, and to go experience the history and culture of people myself. So please quiet thyself you uncultured peasant !
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Ivan Strydom great response. Anyway, how is your country doing with the black hostile takeover?
@@ivanstrydom8417 - You don't care for social media right? Really? Obviously not only are you a racist, you're also a liar which is actually the same thing. RUclips is social media, yet here you are watching videos, looking for anything to increase your racist ideology if only in your warped brain, lying in comments about "what you prefer" and calling other people "uncultured". Wow, I am so NOT impressed.
They will tell you all belong to the Jews, even if Africans were Dark skined people, the Jews are White, Europeans. I remember all Tarzan movies, Johnny Weissmuller Jungle Jim. TV Serial, all has been hidden from sight..
Sebastiaan De Wit All these documentaries, films, music, news media and so forth that are highly racist towards People of Melanin Skin and when there is one documentary that is not about European descendant comfort, everyone gets upset. Imagine how the rest of us feel everyday dealing with racism. You are lucky that one documentary took you out of your comfort privileged entitled zone.
Nonsense - it does recount the actions of racists, but it is obviously anti-racist, as you and the other commenters here obviously have not understood.
So somehow the white explorers and settlers collapsed this thriving beacon of civilization, hundreds of years before they arrived on the scene? And the abandoned city with all its records and artifacts lay undisturbed for all that time, until despoiled by the colonialists? And who exactly claimed it was built by white men? We are not told. I am sure there were skilled artisans, farmers, metalworkers and other types of craftsmen and women. But a culture without paper, writing, mathematics or the wheel was Wakanda? Early explorers had some wacky ideas of Prester John and were hardly enlightened, but they ventured into the heart of Africa from Europe, not the other way around. This tells us something.
None of them are lost there are villages of people who still live there there are actually 500+ large ones from different time periods covering an area between 4km2-7km2 , there are about closs to 1000 small ones that even I consider them villages from different time periods.
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I enjoyed your video. You may wish to extend your research to cover the Sphinx of Giza.
A reconstruction of the face of Giza suggests a face of an African person with an extended lower jaw bone.
This is typical in some African groups such as the Bakongo (E.g. see a picture the sculpture of a Bakongo lady by by British sculptor and African explorer Herbert Ward.) That is, the Bakongo may be the descendants of the builders of the Sphinx and other structures in Egypt.
The Bakongo lie directly to the West of the Zimbabwe where they reside in Angola and Congo. It is possible that the Bakongo took their expertise of building/sculpture in Egypt down to Southern Africa, and may have been the builders of the Great Walls of Zimbabwe.
@@kenyareads6918 , I ve got a little theory that the descendants of the Egyptian pyramid-builders and pharoes are the Nilotics, like the Dinka, Maasai, Nuer etc.. Check out the profiles of the pharoes compared to the Nilotic people .
Zimbabwe, my motherland. I'm proud to be a Zimbabwean.
As you should be,
The Zimbabwe people have endured a lot, and keeping their culture alive despite that is inspiring
This documentary is amazing! As a Brazilian, I feel that we don't know enough about the empires of Africa, commonly people just refer to it as "africans", they don't even know the names of the countries and the glorious history behind it, that's a shame for us. The entire continent is incredible, the humanity was "born" there. I'm happy to know more about Zimbabwe after this video, and I'll search more about the another African nations.
And, hello to zimbabweans
Hello good to here from you our beloved African sister
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@Karol Bernardo also check on the ancient city of Benin destroyed and ransacked by the British colonialists.
Hallo sister, we Zimbabweans know our history, we are a peculiar people
Zimbabwe doesn’t mean sacred houses. The root of the word is Dzimba - houses Dzamabwe - of stone. Zimbabwe means house of stone.
How do you know this?
@@amily7801 thank you
There are two theories according to Wikipedia
The name contains dzimba, the Shona term for "houses". There are two theories for the etymology of the name. The first proposes that the word is derived from Dzimba-dza-mabwe, translated from the Kalanga dialect of Shona as "large houses of stone" (dzimba = plural of imba, "house"; mabwe = plural of bwe, "stone"). A second suggests that Zimbabwe is a contracted form of dzimba-hwe, which means "venerated houses" in the Zezuru dialect of Shona, as usually applied to the houses or graves of chiefs.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Zimbabwe#Name
Though house(s?) of stone seems more likely.
Correct it’s actually ‘dzimba dzemabwe’ (meaning houses made of stone) obviously I’m Shona, Zimbabwean and that’s the literal translation.
@@NKiani
Thankyou for clarifying, I guess the film makers chose the more romantic name. Within archeological circles' at least in England anyway, they use the terms 's' word and 'r' word for 'sacred' and 'ritualistic' because discovering ancient structures in Britain that could be temples is extremely rare.
what most people r not aware of is that there are many mini-versions of great zimbabwe scattered across zimbabwe like Khami ruins, Tsindi, Danan’ombe, etc
Across southern Africa not just Zimbabwe but more than 90% of them are in Zimbabwe
I didn't even know Zimbabwe's name comes from the stone ruins that exist across the region
@HH1-1-j5prun by locals, yes.
As a Zimbabwean I can share and add that;
Dzimba(houses) bwe (stone) Zimbabwe means the great house (Zimba) of bwe(stone).
So the word has a literal and a figurative meaning
The people being the houses of stone. Meaning that the people carry the divine (Rock Eternal/Almighty God) within them.
So for the simple minded who do not quite understand African spiritualism, hold onto houses of stone. However Zimbabweans are intently spiritual people like most Africans and in Shona most words/statements have literal and profound figurative meanings. If you understand that and also know that in Zimbabwe we have the Lemba(Black Jews) then you may understand that Zimbabwe refers to the being who is human but has a divine eternal spirit inside them.
HalleluYAH 🙏 proud to be a Zimbabwean God loves us 🙏
You are enlightened... let me start by saying that these colonial labels like Zimbabwean, Mozambican, South African etc are rubbish and for the brainwashed and sleeping folk. All Bantus are the real people of the Book, The Most High's people in our different ( greater 12) tribes.
"Zimbabwe" is more closer to 'Zimba ra Yahuah', 'Zimba raYahweh', similarly Zambia, Gambia, Tanzania , etc many if not most Bantu (Israelite) nation names have coincidentally or not the name of or reference to the Father "Yah" in them
Deeper then that we were given the skin we our light conductors the infinte communicates to us we have been given the stone pineal gland
We are the infinte and all given the skin light conductor yes we are great but we must be black=99.9 percent light receiver and truly understand and nurture fear and darkness to see the all that nurtures every single hue man my mothers middle name is human are i humanyari my family even in my names have been given knowledge it is simple darkness is just light unknownin of itself nurture and understand that as humans we don’t die we are the infinte all
What many people don't know is there are several other small ruins dotted around Zimbabwea. These are like provinces to the great Zimbabwe. There is Khami, Naletale and many more.
What qualifies the "provinces" assumption
@@thabanikasenzela9338 size mostly the other thing is the natives of Zimbabwe the shona major city was built in masvingo province where the great enclosure lay ...artifacts which have been found date that that was the oldest city built in the sub sahara ..southern region the second in Africa coming after the Egyptian pyramids .....so to date it was the first in zim and largest and that's where the shona king resided ...so the others can be presumed as satellite cities or provinces as she presumed ...
Could they have come from the late bronze age when the middle east
when most of the major cities of civilation were distroyed by the so called sea people.
14 BC..
@@georgejackson5951 The ruins were built up until around the 19th century. So if they were middle eaterners there would be at least some genetic footprint.
@@georgejackson5951 gtfoh with your White supremacist ideaology. You yt people always claim Black African achievments as yt or "middle eastern" (that's two directions NOT a people). Bantus built this. Just like how Kushites built Egypt and Nubia.
Proudly Zimbabwean
@Sikra Sikra How can you be mad because someone been proud of their country. Something wrong with you.
@Sikra Sikra ... Smh; when an WHAT actually is an ACCOMPLISHMENT that is or HASN'T been STOLEN or rather NAMED by its THIEVERY Convention in which a MURDEROUS people come. TRICKERY an DECEIT forms that FORKED TONGUE...
Boy until the LION writes the story of the safari you shouldn't expect the TRUTH nor anything FACTUAL from THOSE whom are in places that cant be SUBSTANTIALLY Affected by ALTERNATE reality.
@Sikra Sikra stay away from my scottish peoples inventions.
@Sikra Sikra pamhata pako blaz
Don't hate all white people. I'm white and I know society's racist lies to hide black achievement, don't think all white people are like that we need to unify together as people of all color who are humans and fight the racists demonic plot to ruin mankind
Wow me as an African American am amazed at how much I need to know 🇯🇲🇯🇲 1LUV
Come to Zimbabwe
You Jamaican with a lil booty? Lol how
U are welcome to come and see all this and more
@@mike-waynedjangoii6971 thank you 👑👑👑🙏🙏🙏🙏
See the video of the Sudanese by Zainab
Can you imagine such evil, being hellbent on painting the black civilisation as futile.
It’s obvious. Whatever they found made them so hateful and jealous that they went through all that trouble to destroy hide and lie about the truth.
True heathens! Makes me physically sick...the evil even in the side eye reporting of this madness! Still justifying their evil. Wow!
Just look at how wonderfully managed black African countries are today...why are they making every effort to get out of Africa...and into the UK...why...
@@davidverster9523 you’re proving their point! Smh
Yeah I'm jealous of african Dictatorships, tribes, elephants and deserts how did you know
I wish every historical documentary was narrated by this guy. I've never heard a voice that fit this type of content so perfectly.
Marq Mac. U. Sound just like a racist Did u even listen to the video! It’s Africa!!!!! I know real History! 🤔🤨😂
@@eddiebarnum6020 That wasn't sarcasm stupid. So relax.
Marq Mac watch. Your. Mouth. !! Stupid! No. Need too respond. The End! !!! 😡
False trachings for decades are their success over africans
False teachings are global
Kumusha. Masvingo. My heritage,no one can take that away from me.
Does anybody want to?
@@grasonicus tell that to hundreds of Europeans and people of European descent that either practice Africa music or wear African clothes and hairstyles,eat African foods or just practice some form African culture
@@ronjayrose9706 Not sure I understand this. Is the idea that someone loses a "heritage" if it is shared with others? If so, that is really a really weird thing to think. Anyway, every single living human has African heritage in the sense that we all have ancestors who lived in what we today call Africa.
@@grasonicus you're joking, right?
@@ronjayrose9706 where???
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I am very surprised at all the hate here.I am Zimbabwean and close to this ancient city is where I was born as were all my ancestors before me.How can I not be proud?
Ikr like why these people are so hostile
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Nothing wrong with being proud.
I think people forget that there are multiple ruins sprinkled in Zimbabwe
Actually you would be surprised to know how long I can go without thinking about Zimbabwe lol lol
brian mureverwi links?
Not just Zimbabwe... The same kind of ruins are in SA and Botswana too...
@@innomagege and Mozambique as well before Europeans came and drew up borders
Zvimwe muchinyarara wo. Motiparira zvimwe muchifunga mukuvagonera vangezi ava vakazodzoka vakati pamha zve. Apa maChina akutotinetsa nechekare.
Zvimwe nyararai hama, siyai zvakadaro
When they tell you ancient Egypt civilization was built by alien but they forget all over Africa was great civilization
Not the entirety of ancient egypt was built by aliens, the pyramids were, since for the ancient people at this time it should not have been so easy to construct the largest building ever in humankind over the course of less than 2 decades if I remember correctly. Also, what does being a "great" civilisation have to do with Aliens?
Thanks for making this timeline. Proudly zimbabwean
What a pleasure it is to listen to mr. John Rhys-Davies' narration.
proudly African, from the lost kingdom of damota wolitia south Ethiopia!
I really enjoyed this quick overview of Zimbabwe, sad and also inspirational because it’s really showcases how intelligent Africans still are..
What holds Africans back is idiotic leaders ,tribalism and outdated cultural values in some aspects
@timeline could you please always include the date the documentaries were produced? just for the viewers to be able to put them into context.
@elitemathlete it was posted here today. The original show was on either The History Channel, A&E, or PBS.
@elitemathlete wow. 😂😂😂
@elitemathlete It was POSTED on the 17th of December 2019, but MADE in 1992. Look at the end credits.
@@Hugh-Man0006 In 1992.
Zimbabwe my home❤
My wife's home also 💯🇱🇾
Please stay or go back
Homegirl
It’s a shame what happened to them, It would be so interesting to see a group of Africans who had not experienced colonization or contamination in anyway and to see how they would develop other than Ethiopia.
Africa thrived before the Caucasian spread their hatred and segregation to the beautiful Melanin people of Africa.
You live in a dream world 😂😂
zona bahaya so you say.
@@zonabahaya5462 I'm sorry Zona Bahaya, but you can't dismiss scientific fact by saying "You live in a dream world." That's not an argument.
Lerato Moses that’s right !!! The land of riches
@@zonabahaya5462 you are an idiot. It was a great civilization. An it still is.
Its not a lost city or civilization, its a place with a rich hertage of the Shona people, through oral tradition there is ample evidence on the culture and tradition of ancestors of the Shona who built thjis sacred place.
What a heart breaking waste! Makes me so angry. Imagine the amazing heritage, history and stories lost. I can’t wait for the day we can recover them all! I am a proud Zimbabwean! Especially proud of our heritage of amazing sculptures and the proud soapstone Chapungu on our flag.
They came from the sea with greed in their eyes and hatred in their hearts and violence in their hands. This reminds me of how Minister Pik Botha destroyed Mapungubwe archeological sites in apartheid South Africa to wipe out any trace of black origins
Mapungubwe was built by the Venda, a Cousin of the Shona from Zimbabwe
@@zvikomboreromugwenjedzi1052 Of course.
absolutely
@@zvikomboreromugwenjedzi1052 You're wrong, it was built by the Shona known then as Karanga people of the Hungwe (fish eagle) totem
@@h.m.5724 😂😂😂😂😂
Great bit of African history. Thank you!
The same thing that happened with the Great Zimbabwe Ruins, when it comes to cover ups, is the same thing that happened AND still is around today in Egypt. The truth of Africans being able to build advanced structures and civilizations, is being covered up by racism.
Except that's not true. The genetic evidence suggests that the non Nubian Egyptians were more closely related to Europeans... I guess facts are racist
@@scottsanders4589 Europeans in ancient times in Africa?,I disagree Scott go and dig deeper Ancients Egyptians were black and the name Egypt is not real
@@trymoremutasa8398 also when did I ever say the Egyptians were European? What I said was, non Nubian Egyptians were genetically closer to Europeans then to Africans. Don't try to put words in someone else's mouth when you can barely read and write
@@scottsanders4589 yes it is true. The nubians are from sudan and everyone in sudan is black. Sudan mean land of blacks and land of sun and moon worshippers. The original peoples of ancient egypt are Batwa as stated many times by pharaohs. Another people are the black Sudanese people. The Luo, Azande, and the Bakuba peoeole are from Nubia and their technology(weaponry) backs it up. Many of us here in the USA are Kinupe who are ancient Napata people and the Yoruba have similar origins. So yes that means that even black Americans are descendants of Nubians as west Africa is West Sudan culturally and geographically.
@@vtecnegro85
Clutching at straws here, Former Martian.
West Africa is hundreds of kms from Nubia & most American blacks originate from West Africa & the Congo basin, NOT from the Sudan.
btw-Ancient Egyptians were NOT black, although some Nubians lived amongst them.
DNA proves that Egyptians were mainly related to other Middle-Eastern people, with some European blood.(Mummies with red or blond hair?).
We cannot tell what colour their eyes were, but they made many wooden statues with BLUE eyes. Why?
Stop trying to claim other people's culture.
Everyone should be proud of where their ancestors are from. If your ancestors are from Zimbabwe be proud of it.
Let me be clear, I am white, I am proud my ancestors were English, Irish, Scottish, and French. I am proud of that.
If your of African descent be proud of it. We don’t need to hate each other, or say we should be ashamed of our ancestors.
Amen 2 that
Nobody is ashamed of ancestors they never met ,humans are flaud today and in all of history
Africa was once the trading centre of the world, had a great king called mansamusa richest man in the world at the time. when he died british went in his gold mine and plunder it.
Keith Morrison ouch !!!
Yep and one of their top exports... African people!
Scott Sanders say it again Sir!!!💪🏿
He also sent expeditions to the Americas, way before any European
@Sikra Sikra actually, the internet was invented by an Nigerian, and cellphone made by a black man
Zimbabwe itself even means “house of stone”
Zimbabwe means "sacred houses" (as stated within first few minutes of video)
Rebecca Sykes Smythe I heard that part, I was just saying what I heard from another video that said it meant house of stone.
"Amabwe" means stone in most Bantu languages stretching from Congo to South Africa.
Zimbabwe means "of Stone" in Shona.
Feel free to look it up.
In my home language (Setswana) maje means stones
In Luhya Amabwe means stones also.
I can't believe some of the petty people in the comments with their spamming. "Zimbabwe so great today!" "So great country Mugabe made it!" What does that have to do with the kingdom who built these immense stone constructions? How are they at fault for modern Zimbabwe? I detest Mugabe, but I'm not such an idiot that I'll start spamming a documentary video about an old kingdom in Zimbabwe that predates all this, which built vast stone constructions to such an extent that people in the coming centuries were left puzzled, because there was nothing like them elsewhere in Southern Africa (flaring up peoples imagination and making them think that surely these constructions must relate to biblical King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba or somesuch).
Don't worry, we will be the great race again we once was. The black man and woman is irresistible to all races.
All true.
Not true for a lot of black men because they're laying down with the heathens 💯🎯😣
The way we hate our kind as Africans, that will only happen by God's grace
There is a quiet revolution
@@iyatunde7860 it's called the information age
A proud Samanyika Zimbabwe Bantu people rise up
My heart bleeds as a Zimbabwean because those ruins were destroyed by colonialists . The ruins dates back to 11th century. The city was never lost to us its people.
Destroyed no ?
Its also Rhodesia not “Zimbabwe”
Rhodesia was infinitely better
@@Based_location Rhodesia is what you colonizers called it when you came to our land, murdered, raped and killed my people because of Greed and envy of what was not yours.
@@Based_locationit’s Zimbabwe
@@Based_location damn dawg why are you still holding onto racist beliefs? Very sad to see
Yet, the Europeans are upset that the People of Zimbabwe reclaimed their lands!
Nah we're pretty cool with it. How's that famine working out for them? They're doing so well without white people to tell them what to do
@@scottsanders4589 of course your cool with it. Now, we all see their point even more.
Don't fret, they will prevail these are better men.
ruclips.net/video/lnC9UsZjsTU/видео.html
How is it their land? They stole it from the original inhabitants (San Bushmen). Although i do understand you're only a politicized simpleton.
@@scottsanders4589 I'm doing very well on my 30 hectares of land. I have a 10 bedroom home with a massive pool and I eat fresh chicken, eggs, bacon, potatoes, maize every day. Life is good Scott. We are working on feeding the rest of the nation. I don't know which media outlet has lied to you about no famine. I can send you some fresh food mate. Inbox me
@@janaoh5785 the same way the Germans and the French and Euro people laid claims to portions of land in Europe. It'd've been odd if a bunch of Afro melaneted people also claimed say England.
Most people, dont know that shona language of Zimbabwe has a lot of ancient Hebrew references and some words today are still the same
glenview rungano Very interesting 🧐
Adding to the link to the Bantu Jews (The Lemba), in neighboring Limpopo
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@@modikana9756 www.thepatriot.co.zw/old_posts/similarities-between-shona-and-shemitic-languages-part-one-founders-of-the-human-race-were-blacks/ its just a tip of the iceberg
@@wunganayigrastianmasiyiwa4138 there's strong evidence that we are Hebrews its sad that the majority of zimbo's are still in ancestral worship but it will come a time that they will wake up to know their heritage
@@wunganayigrastianmasiyiwa4138 HalleluYAH 🙏♥️ proud to be a Rozvi ♥️a Zimbabwean
Indo Aryan semetic propaganda again. No it does not. Please leave us the f alone go to the holy land why are you here.
We are the first, the Mother Land, Africa. Thanks for this❤
Zimbabwean here🙋♀️
Thank you for the documentary, these ruins are a sacred heritage to the present day people of Zimbabwe. Most of the cultural practices and rites from the Great Zimbabwe are still being practiced today.ITS NOT A LOST CITY, ITS A WORLD CLASS HISTORICAL SITE. STOP THAT MISREPRESENTATION OF FACTS.
Proud? Of some simple constructions without formidable architecture, that even its appearance is very primitive as from the time of the stone age?
How can you follow their cultural practices and rites if you don't know who they were, and they left no description of those? It's a ruin.
@@grasonicus My brother through our tradition and history we know our ancestors built this shrine, the westerners are just trying to disrupt our history.We know who did these great works and the purpose it serves up to now.All that is unknown to outsiders.Its not about archeology or science here , it's about heritage and culture.Everything written by non natives about this place is a farce, a big lie.We know the truth and we shall preserve it.
@@louwsaviour6475 Nobody disputes that blacks built Zimbabwe ruins. But exactly who built it and what their language was (they left no records) and their customs were are all speculation. This absence of written records is what decided most people the ruins must have been built by people who could not write.
It's impossible to 'just know' things. One needs evidence.
@@grasonicus That's why I told you that it's not about archeology or science, you are not a Zimbabwean by birth and I can't disclose to you the evidence that this is a heritage of our ancestors, you are always blinded by written records, your western archeologists came and for many years tried to destroy artefacts and structures to disprove the evidence that our ancestors built the shrine.
Go to Timbktu in Mali, Meroe in Sudan, and Giza Egypt, then you can see that civilization originated here in Africa.
Westerners have tried to hypothesise on the existence of Great Zimbabwe but all what they did to us is a laughing matter.We just do not listen to their nonsense discussions and writings that are racial and full of prejudice.
I visited this place in 1985 with my family. My fathers side of my family come from Nyanga, which is in the eastern highlands of Zimbabwe.
I love a great history lesson, thank you for sharing!
God bless you brother from Nigeria 🇳🇬
Zimbabwe my home am proud of it
Zimbabwe doesn't mean Sacred houses by the way, Dzimba- houses Bwe- stone, thus Zimbabwe = Houses of Stone
I just watched a BBC documentary of Great Zimbabwe of a Black host that was a good show. He pointed out the exact same thing meaning "Houses of Stone". Thanks for the linguistic break down.
Literally it means that, but Zimba means a big house, and it symbolically means ritual and spiritual sacredness.Bwe or buwe means shone, which symbolises stability and dignity in a race or tribe. Ancient African rulers used to to have sits Madrid stone, especially granite and marble
Our history through the eyes of a foreigner. That’s disgraceful
At least it's being shared.
i agree, but were are the documentaries one done by our shamwaris from Zim? please if you have.
fidelis phiri
The system is real.
It’s not that deep.
Disgraceful how? Why don't you do a documentary of your own.
Gracias for this great documentary! 👍
Zimbabwe is where the Hebrews are today!! Most of them
Not sure what you mean Lori. Yes there is a Jewish tribe in Zimbabwe, the Lemba but -there are descendants of Jewish tribes all over the world. Many muslims are in fact the descendants of the lost tribes, so are the British and the Northwest Europeans; Palestinians are descendants of Jews that converted; Afghans, Uzbeks all contain large numbers of lost tribe descendants.
@@janaoh5785
Sure Jana I would naturally be referring to the (K)Congo tribes. Are you sure yet. They were never scattered they left and hid in Zimbabwe. Yes of course Jana the Hebrew Israelites were indeed scattered to the 4 quarters of the earth!
@@janaoh5785 Lemba are Bakongo Patro.
Epic intro.... The Sliders!!!....
Shiri yedu yakadzoka just recently and I bet there's a lot more out there.
Of course there's plenty more including a plate inscribed with a Zimbabwean written language stolen by Rhodes. Yet you're lied to that you never had any written language prior to the colonisers coming
Solomon was an african and so was the children of israel.
These were once african stories.
nature boy amen to that... absolutely right
Stop day dreaming
@@frankkotte117 Well he certainly liked African women Lol
@@frankkotte117 research about the original statue of solomon which is kept in the history vaults in Israel and get back to me . Tell me how he looks like 😉
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We are all humans, and brothers and sisters. White, black there is good and bad in our history. Because there is good and bad in humans. I am part West African and part Same (an indigenous partly nomadic people from the northern parts of Scandinavia), part Finnish and there are indian people, jews, italian people and turks in our multi-ethnical family. But when all is said and done we are all just humans. Just humans. Our mixed blood binds us together and love keeps us together. My forefathers in West Africa became slaves, they became colonized by the French and all these things, and my Same people still do not have our land back that the Swedish and Norwegians took from us. My grandmothers generation (Same-people) was taken from their parents at the age of 7 and sent away to learn Swedish and Swedish traditions by force. Humans can be very evil to one another. And yes, it seems like it very often are so called caucasian that do this bad things. But Africans do bad things to fellow Africans to. I understand that it is a bad thing when white people think they can tell the history of other people. But it is time for us, Africans, native Americans, Same people and all other to star telling our own history to the world. I am a Historian, I have a university degree and I do just that. Not to tell the world that my people are better than other, but just to give my people a voice. Bless you my fellow human being in the world. (and sorry for bad English)
ndiri mwana wevhu..wekumusha..muZimba
Prejudical ignorance hovers like a plague to human consciousness.
It is a loathsome state that requires a true higher minded state to apply Compassion upon it -
interesting film
Interesting to see that the people making this documentary are as driven by ideology as the people who went before.
yep.
Agreed. Very unbalanced. With a Degree in History, I look for a balanced review. Colonization had its dark side, but also its light side with clean running water etc. The Romans colonized Britain, but they maintain a much more positive approach to that fact. In fact, if you look on RUclips at all the invaders and colonizers of Britain after the Romans left, it is mindboggling.
Oh, please. Unbalanced? All of the lies that are being uncovered and you are calling something unbalanced. But when you are able to control the narrative, you can rewrite history as you have done so well and lie in real time as what is being done now to people all of the world.
Yes, and the proof is that Zimbabweans have made ruins of Zimbabwe again as it is now bankrupt with no running water or electricity in Harare. Roads are falling apart with massive holes and if you look at the constant decay they are all going back to the stone age at a rapid rate. Everyone still blames white men, you know the one with the intelligence that made this country the breadbasket of the world before Mugabe took over.
@@FunFunFun8888 oh, please... Africans have been colonised and taught to despise themselves for generations thanks to colonisation what can you expect. It will take time for the politics and mindset to develop again from scratch.
I was born in Zimbabwe of mixed race parents.Subjected to racism all my life from both Black and White. Therefore I feel that I can present an unbiased alternative theory as to the origins of the builders of this place. In the video I detected some anomalies for example the name of the place originates from the corruption of the word dzibawe meaning stone ruins.
The complex is an astronomical observatory, similar to all the stone circles found at many ancient sites all over the world, e.g. Stonehenge and the so called prayer circles of North America and many more too numerous to mention. For one, the local people do not have a history of the study of astronomy. If at all, they do, could someone please correct me.
One point that may prove that the complex is an observatory is to look at a structure on a hill called The Three Granaries , which are not traditional granaries but alignment points to mark the solstices and the equinox.
Actually your alleged mixed race heritage makes you the worst person to speak on this and no where near unbiased. You prove this by your use of the words "alternative theory". That pretty much proves my point.
Isn't it too old to be the work of the Bantu or Shona people?
I ws born in england to white parents, subjected to racism all my life from both black and white. therefore i feel i can present an unbiased .....lol
@@davidwilliams658 - No, that just makes hella confused. How are you "mixed" if you were "born to white parents." And the fact that you think you even experience "racist" from "everybody" proved you don't even know what it is. FYI: Only African/black parents can give birth to "white" babies white parent's can't birth "black/African" babies. Now I have no idea what you're talking about. Do us all a favor and STFU, grown folks are taking to have a conversation.
@@nialcc i was making a joke, calm down, sort out your weave, i was mocking the 1st comment and yourself silly woman go play with your dolls, men are talking! lol
What about the Lemba?
Gimli, son of Gloin, should narrate every documentary from here on.
I wonder if it is the Queen of Sheba's place. And what about the place called Solomon's Wall?? I think a lot real history has been hidden from us
I think it's not since QoS was Ethiopian
Since it is a medieval structure, no.
This is what has been hidden, Solomon never existed. Yet THUTMOSES III did exist and he is the true author of the so-called proverbs of Solomon. Besides, haven't you ever heard of the temple of (SOL) & (OMON) TEMPLE OF THE SUN AND THE MOON. Remember these people got tricks for the thoughts inside your mindset. Mindset, meaning program control over you with false no history because these people never existed.
what an opening speech about white colonialist.....thanks for such structured, posh, elegant and emphasized speech.
Where are the custodians of this great kush civilization, have they any ties to this great works ??? OoThixo bootata baphi?, mungu wa wazee wangu muko wapi???
thanks for this historic video
Yo this film like 30 years old..! Timeline please put the date on your films
i totaly agree with most views,why they insists on telling our history,telling us who we are and ancestors,we know the history,we are not allowed to tell it,but we know afrika is one of the strongest and most resourceful....AFRIKA will regain its position..BELIEVE THAT and will tell you
Zimbabweans build great Zimbabwe 🇿🇼
Yes
l'm also proud to be called a Zimbabwean:.Lucky myself
A country with great minds 98% literacy.it all began long time agoo my zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe now has a 98% literacy rate
@@survivalmode1501 ruclips.net/video/5VftTtHTwYE/видео.html
60% of the population live outside of the country is a shithole to be realistic
Damn I didn't know that, 98% literacy? If I remember correctly your country had a great ruler who really kicked off the zimbabwean economy with diamons and such. He probably also made a lot of efforts on education. On another note, I can't think of any zimbabwean Great Minds?
Definitely Shona people noone else .Some Ndebele want to rig themselves into this Magnificent work
21:15 "Great Zimbabwe is today a monument to a mighty African society that thrived as Europe languished."
Lol what? What events in 14th/15th century Europe is he referring to? When I think of that period the resurgence of culture and the sciences spreading from Italy across the continent and the reconquista in Spain and subsequent discovery/conquest of the Americas?
@Racialist Slayer From wikipedia: "Construction of the stone buildings started in the 11th century and continued for over 300 years." So in other words, the contruction was not finished untill the 14th century. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Zimbabwe
@@janruudschutrups9382 construction started around 900A.D to 1000A.D it was it was finished around 1100A.D that its peak until the 1200A.D. then around early 1400A.D the decline started 1450A.D A Prince named nyatsimba mutota moved north is search of salt then established the munhumutapa dynasty.
@@shanewalkingdead8258 Not to dispute your facts about Great Zimbabwe but my question was aimed at the presenter's claim that at the height of Great Zimbabwe Europe was somehow in a state of decline. I'd like to know what he means by that since Europe during the late Middle Ages was anything but in decline.
Thank you.
Philippines and African are same race... Ophir
Dzimba- means houses and dzemabwe means stones in plural. "bwe" or "Ibwe" means one stone in Karanga people from Masvingo. In Zezuru "bwe or "Ibwe" means "dombo" .
They destroyed and looted our heritage calling themselves explorers - archaeologists and keeping our artifacts in their museums! It is really sad!! Proud of my heritage my lineage and the "Nyanda" (Masvingo) region!!
Actually, it's my opinion that the true mystery at Great ZImbabwe is in the ancient burials left by those who once inhabited the city.
There aren't any. A few chiefs a few centuries old were buried on the Hill Complex & removed, much to the distress of the local Africans about a hundred years ago. But no large burial or cremation sites in the surrounding area have ever been discovered.
This makes for an interesting conundrum. The dating for the city suggest that it was founded around a thousands years ago, thrved for around five hundreds years & was abandoned suddenly about five hundred years ago. It was then discovered by westerners about four hundred years ago.
So, let's assume that Great Zim was built &remained a city full of people for around five hundred years. If that's true then many tens or hundreds of thousands of people must have lived & died in the city & around it. The problem is, no-one has been able to find any evidence of their burial or cremation.
So either the dating is wrong & the site is actually so old that all those buried in the surrounding area are lost to time, or those who abandoned the city five hundred years ago took all their dead with them...
Hmm interesting observation. And if the city thrived and traded for 500 years around the medieval period it's a little strange no other civilization seems to have any records of trading with Zimbabwe. Its a shame that guy destroyed so much of the site, probably took away so many answers to our questions.
@@anntomelton8167 There were civilisations all over Africa during the time of Great Zim, this wasn't Africa's medieval period, medieval is a timepoint that explains europe's evolution, or lack of. Also the plundering of great Zim is a story that happened all over Africa, so that's where the 'records' would have got to.
@@wordsbymaribeja1470 How come those primitive Europeans could have plundered those advanced Africans so easily?
@@anntomelton8167 Actually, there are records of trade. The Ethiopians record trade with a country called Sasos. The Arabs have Waqlimi.
@@grasonicus the answer clearly lies in your question
Am kenyan, kikuyu tribe to be specific...but today i had a dream about this specific place,and Africa at large...i was being shown the African map,zoomed into my eyes was 3 countries which i thought was Israel...but the map was zoomed back and The whole map of Africa was Written* Israel *with some parts of middleEast...and due to my shock ,words tgat came out of my mouth was"THIS EXPLAINS THE ZIMBAMBWE RUINS*(though in the dream i sauid zambia ruins making me wonder the connection between the two countries)....So in Short i came directly to youtube to find research about the ruins and here iam🙏...LET EVERY ZIMBABWEAN KNOW THEIR COUNTRY IS A BIBILICAL SITE.... hopefully one day i will come n visit and pray there cuss God revealed this to me with a reason yet iam miles away in middle East now..
True Land of Ophir and real location of SOLOMON temple we bantu know this.
Truth!
Congats on being Bantu, Greg
Its Zimbabwean shonas built it ......
Charles Nyeke Shona people are Bantu. Before maps and invisible borders kingdoms and bloodlines spread wider than we were taught. I’ll never forget the feelings of walking through those ancient walls, the air was chilly like spirits were still there. It was something special.
🤦🏿♂️... this place has nothing to do with the Bible or king Solomon.
The truth shall set us all free❤️
l toured the Zimbabwe Ruins over forty years ago.
At that time the country was called Rhodesia.
The (white) guide told us at the time that these ruins were built by local Africans.
Why is everyone getting their knickers in a knot over all this?
They have found Chinese pottery & Arabian coins there but believe that this was from trade.
Nobody knows the name of the tribe or group who built it.
And while we are on the subject DNA has proved that an African tribe called the Lemba have substantial Jewish ancestry.
This is thought to come from centuries later when Jewish traders penetrated up the rivers to trade.
Nothing to do with the Zimbabwe Ruins.
lt is thought that the first Europeans to "find" the ruins were the Portuguese in the 16th century.
I read the comments below with people bickering about who built Egypt. Here is the bottom line: Africans have more diversified gene pool than any other race in the world (please fact check). Original settlers of Australia were black skin (fact check). Original settlers of Britain were Black skin (please! Fact check), the oldest civilization in the Americas were the Olmec (thick lip negroed features). Thousands of years ago, Africans that went into Europe eventually started developing brittle bones because melanin didn't allow for absorption of sunlight needed to produce vitamin D which in turn helps with the production of calcium (fact check) leading to the loss of melanin hence caucasoid features. The oldest settlers of Japan were Black skin (fact check). Conclusion: it would amount to sheer arrogance on anyone's part to imply or attempt to make the argument that civilization (whichever one) was founded by light skinned people. Caucasians, West indians, Asians, Mediterraneans and Semites came from the melanated people as a result of genetic adaptations. Please please let's stop this deliberate attempt at white washing everything. I really don't care who built great Zimbabwe, you are all Africans period.
Wouldn't it have been easier just to say that skin colour doesn't matter as we're all the same people? To me that's axiomatic.
@@philaypeephilippotter6532
I agree, that would have been the better way of saying it 👍.
This is old, at least 20 years.
Yes, it says it was filmed in 1992. Astute observation, if I may add.
I did not endure it until the end, only about 15 minutes was my limit.
Wonderful stuff
3:46 Cathedrals weren't planned? Is he sure he's talking about cathedrals and not simple church buildings?
Ely cathedral was planned.
He's politically correct. He can say anything he wants to; it can even be a downright lie. Such is political correctness.
The original name for Zimbabwe was Dzimbahwe meaning sacred place. Zimbabwe is a modern name meaning house of stones. Understand the two. Most of their sacred places are in mountains or hills of stones. Look at Domboshava, Njelele shrine, Zame etc
A great Bantu creation
Lol, when you start watching a documentary at 3am and John Rhys Davies walks out behind a chair to tell you about Zimbabwe.
My home🇿🇼
kupi ? :)
The Lemba, some of whom descend from 1st Century CE Jewish Temple Priests who migrated into Africa and down to the Zimbabwe and South Africa Limpopo borderland region claim they built it.
According to NOVA Magazine:
"Many tribes, including the Shona and Venda, maintain that their ancestors were responsible for Great Zimbabwe, but the Lemba are "particularly insistent," says University of London scholar Tudor Parfitt. "They claim that one of their clans, the Tovakare, were the actual builders of Zimbabwe," Parfitt says. "They even call them Tovakare Muzimbabwe, which means 'the ones that built Zimbabwe.'"
Certain evidence appears to support the Lemba claim. For instance, unlike other Bantu tribes, who bury their dead in a crouched posture, the Lemba bury theirs in an extended position, as did the ancient Zimbabweans. One of the strongest pieces of evidence concerns trade, Parfitt says. "Great Zimbabwe was a civilization that was constructed very largely on wealth generated from cattle and trade. And given that for hundreds of years we know the Lemba were the great traders of southern Africa, it seems almost certain that their ancestors would have been involved in this trading nexus between Great Zimbabwe and the Indian Ocean."
"The mystery of Zimbabwe is the mystery which lies in the still pulsating heart of native Africa."
If the Lemba contention is true, does this mean that outsiders-that is, not native Africans-built Great Zimbabwe? After all, the Lemba have Semitic origins (see Tudor Parfitt's Remarkable Quest). The answer is no, because by the time Great Zimbabwe was built in medieval times, the Lemba had become decidedly African, having so thoroughly intermixed with Bantu Africans over many hundreds of years that today, among other African traits, the Lemba have dark skin and speak a Bantu language."
Source: www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/mysteries-of-great-zimbabwe/
Wonderful documentary. Colonialism and prejudice has a lot to answer for!
No, Colonialism does not have anything to answer for ... they're all dead, dumbass!
espesh by people of colour hey..
Yep, you are right. Without colonialism they would be living in bliss. Granted without any education,health,with tribal wars or even inventing the wheel. Such heaven on earth.Perhaps you should read up on Shaka, and other related subjects.
....oh do tell me about prejudice of blacks v whites in Africa right now. True modern day African fascists and racists are the black people themselves!!!... fact.
Great Zimbabwe 😍
I am highly interested in the History of African Civs, since I am a citizen of South Africa and a lover of history and culture.
Wish to expand my knowledge on places in Africa that I have been (such as Mapongupwe) as well as places that I am yet to visit, (Egypt, Sudan,Libya, Algeria) . I try to find as credible sources as possible and wish to know less Propoganda and more fact.
.....video starts with anti European/Anti colonialism racist statement that I have NEVER heard of. ..(oh boy 😒)
Yeah. Skip this one mate...
Obviously your not that interested in history , just the sanitized version eh. Well welcome to reality. History comes with baggage. No need to get upset by it. I take it you spend a fair bit of time on social media, sure sounds like it lmao. You want facts ? you can't handle the facts.
scorp NZ nope, I don't care for social media, I prefer to read books, and to go experience the history and culture of people myself. So please quiet thyself you uncultured peasant !
Ivan Strydom great response. Anyway, how is your country doing with the black hostile takeover?
@@ivanstrydom8417 - You don't care for social media right? Really? Obviously not only are you a racist, you're also a liar which is actually the same thing. RUclips is social media, yet here you are watching videos, looking for anything to increase your racist ideology if only in your warped brain, lying in comments about "what you prefer" and calling other people "uncultured". Wow, I am so NOT impressed.
I love this
I notice a slight racist undertone in this 'documentary'.
They will tell you all belong to the Jews, even if Africans were Dark skined people, the Jews are White, Europeans. I remember all Tarzan movies, Johnny Weissmuller Jungle Jim. TV Serial, all has been hidden from sight..
Sebastiaan De Wit All these documentaries, films, music, news media and so forth that are highly racist towards People of Melanin Skin and when there is one documentary that is not about European descendant comfort, everyone gets upset. Imagine how the rest of us feel everyday dealing with racism. You are lucky that one documentary took you out of your comfort privileged entitled zone.
Nonsense - it does recount the actions of racists, but it is obviously anti-racist, as you and the other commenters here obviously have not understood.
「Austin Smith, it pains you finding out, during that time, the European inhabited in dark caves around the Caucasus mountain.
@@nzurimalkia3181 THANK YOU. FINALLY SOMEONE WITH SOME INTELLIGENCE.
I recently read that this place is now thought to have been an observatory. Search for articles on it.
observatory for what?
Let me guess. A whiteman made that article right?
So somehow the white explorers and settlers collapsed this thriving beacon of civilization, hundreds of years before they arrived on the scene? And the abandoned city with all its records and artifacts lay undisturbed for all that time, until despoiled by the colonialists? And who exactly claimed it was built by white men? We are not told.
I am sure there were skilled artisans, farmers, metalworkers and other types of craftsmen and women. But a culture without paper, writing, mathematics or the wheel was Wakanda? Early explorers had some wacky ideas of Prester John and were hardly enlightened, but they ventured into the heart of Africa from Europe, not the other way around. This tells us something.
Zi- means Big
Mba - house
Bwe - stone
The arrogance of Caucasians is unparalleled
There are over 300 such lost cities in Zimbabwe, baring testimony to the ingenuity of Zimbabwe 's forebearers.
None of them are lost there are villages of people who still live there there are actually 500+ large ones from different time periods covering an area between 4km2-7km2 , there are about closs to 1000 small ones that even I consider them villages from different time periods.
Bull shirt white men telling our history
💯💯💯
History is meant to shared by and inform all. Everyone. You don't own the rights to cancel others from telling history. Grow up
You provide the counter history