Mystery about Zimbabwe monuments

Zimbabwe's name suggests an unlimited association. In Spanish, Zimbabwe means "glass house " , "stone house ". In addition, there are some who say that Zimbabwe is the homonym of "mazimbwe", in Seichanne its meaning is "the house of the chief". The idea is that it is a "rich mine" . All of these suggestations cover Zimbabwe, the continental nation and the ancient ruins in which there is a mysterious color.

In 1868, a group of European explorers traveled to Africa to chase a wild jungle-dense beast about 30km from Victoria in Zimbabwe region, suddenly they discovered a vast wild ruin. . It is the world famous " Zimbabwe " later.

" Great Zimbabwe" has largely been damaged, but there are still some features that embody the magnificence of an ancient architectural complex, and are preserved to this day.

The architectural subject is a flat area at the foot of the mountain that represents the most splendid of " Great Zimbabwe ". The outer diaphragm has an oval shape so it is called a large oval oval wall. On three sides of the wall into East and West, North points three doors, above each door is built of large marble arches. The top of the diaphragm wall is covered with hard but long and slender patterns, with the heads carved in strange shapes of stone birds. In the southeast of the diaphragm, there is a stone wall parallel to the diaphragm wall, the distance between them is 1m, along with the diaphragm wall forming a narrow road 100m long, at the end of this road is a semi-enclosed area like a yard . Inside the diaphragm wall are tall stone towers, conical shaped; There are stone steles, underground tunnels, water wells and a number of small rocky cliffs, just like the ancient palace ruins. Near the wall, there are many small houses.

In the entire Zimbabwe architectural complex, the most mysterious thing is the conical stone towers inside the oval diaphragm wall. This is the architecture of solid marble gut, small and big under, about 20m high, there is no one character. It is mainly made of marble blocks that are chiseled into mortise bricks, built according to the contours of a certain project. There are no traces between the stone bricks that have been used with lime mortar or adhesive, the junctions between the bricks are very close, it is difficult to move a thin blade. Do not know how many years they have experienced, how many brides of this world?

From 1868 onwards, each European expedition and marine scientists to South Africa explore all traces on this magical land. They conducted a survey many times, wanting to clarify the internal mystery of Dai Zimbabwe. The conical tower, inside the Great Wall of Grand Zimbabwe, is the first question to be questioned. British archaeologist Cotlan Bethe spent a lot of money, digging a large-scale tunnel around the conical tower and through the tower, in order to find the entrance. He discovered that these towers were full of intestines, and the entrance until now has not been found, and it may not have doors. Archaeologists can not help but wonder if this giant skyscraper has any effect?

This issue is discussed with many different opinions. It is said that the appearance of the tower resembles a large food storehouse. But the whole tower is a whole body, how can we store food? It is also said that it is a symbol of the male genitals, which is a mascot that some ancient religious rituals used, it represents the strong tribal spirit or the supreme power of tribal chief But all of these ideas lacked convincing evidence, in addition to no recorded data.

For Europeans, Dai Zimbabwe must be a golden age in legends. They claim that it is very similar to European history books, it is very likely that it is the land of King Salomon's gold mine mentioned in the Old Testament. The walls of the castle were built in a manner that King Salomon built a palace on Mount Molia.

This kind of subjective reasoning has aroused European fever for gold. Many Europeans after coming to this stone city hire local people and advanced mechanical means, proceed to dig through the entire relic area, dig to a depth of 3m. They take away all the wrestling, except marble. All documents, including some historical documents that can clarify historical facts are also taken away. Therefore, scientists did not timely conduct research and excavation of this rocky area.

In the later years, people We conducted excavations around Zimbabwe, digging a great amount of wrestling, including weapons, working tools and some beautifully crafted and beautiful jewelry. Some of them were brought from China, Arab, Persia and even from ancient India. From the writings found in the ground of this area, at least we can see, where this devastated stone wall once had a long exchange of culture and trade with China and Saudi Arabia. Ancient Arabic and Persian. But in the ancient books of China, Arab, Persia rarely saw records of trade with Zimbabwe.

It is very likely that these relics are taken by some intermediary to trade in Zimbabwe. Who is this intermediary character, we are not yet known. From the majestic conical towers, we also see the construction technique of the time here has reached a very high level. In other words, those who built this conical tower early on had grasped the knowledge of geometry, architecture, force, .

What are all these small and remote stone structures used for? There are some who believe that this place may be the Citadel of an ancient Kingdom that was destroyed very early; Some people claim that it is a great religious gathering. But all these are just subjective guesses because in fact, all of this stone architecture doesn't have any writing or project or mural. In this regard it is far from the Mayan Citadel of America, or Angkor of Southeast Asia. Maya and Angkor both have bas-reliefs. Moreover, in the handed down world culture, there is no record of Zimbabwe, so we do not know how to learn it. The problem related to this can only be: who? in what time What tools are used? Which method creates this extraordinary beautiful stone? What is the relationship between the creator and the Marshara and the Mataberlai who live in Zimbabwe? If people build stone from outside, why do people suddenly abandon this place someday?

It can be said that in the world outside Egypt, Dai Zimbabwe is also the criterion of African civilization. But we really know and understand it very little