What are the eternal suspense in Greater Zimbabwe?

About 27 kilometers southeast of Fort Victoria in southern Zimbabwe, near Lake Kyle, there is an ancient building called Great Zimbabwe. People have different opinions about its origin so far. When it comes to the discovery of Great Zimbabwe, the first thing to mention is the hunter Li En Des.

Leenders's amazing discovery

In A.D. 1868, the Portuguese hunter Adam Leenders went hunting in Lake Kyle. One day, he chased a wild animal in the forest. Suddenly, his eyes lit up and he found a dark castle on the hillside in front of an open field.

Leenders carefully walked into the empty castle and looked at it curiously. This place is in ruins. According to the legible words, it was originally called Great Zimbabwe, which was once a lively place at that time. Li En Des saw: Great Zimbabwe has oval buildings and fortresses like the Acropolis. The whole building in Great Zimbabwe is extremely exquisite and neat: the oval building is actually a small town with a wall of 9 meters high and 256 meters long. The walls are made of hard granite, and the stones are arranged very neatly. Although no adhesive is used, the stones are closely combined with each other. There are doors in the east, west and north of the city, and the top of the door is made of granite arch. What is puzzling is that there is also a stone wall in the southeast of the town, which is parallel to the city wall and separated by about 1 m. The passage between the walls is actually 100 meter long. At the end of the passage is a semi-closed courtyard with a 9-meter-high conical stone tower. ,

On the cliff outside the city, the ancients found a path, along which they could reach the Acropolis. The acropolis in the city is 90 meters high, the wall is 10 meters high and five or six meters thick. Boarding it, you can have a bird's eye view around and see the town clearly. What is even more amazing is that the walls of the town and the Acropolis are carved with exquisite patterns.

When Lyndes came home, he told his friends what he had found. As a result, many people near and far know about it. For a time, archaeologists and people who want to see it first flocked to this quiet mountain forest.

After careful observation and research, it seems that the statement that Greater Zimbabwe once prospered has become a final conclusion. However, why did people at that time master such superb architectural art? How do they know advanced knowledge such as geometry and physics? Also, why did they build castles? Why did you give up after you built it? This series of problems perplexes people.

A geologist's scam

1872, a geologist named Carl Mock came to Great Zimbabwe. After a random excavation, he had the idea of making a scam. After returning to China, Carl Mock claimed that he had made an amazing discovery in Great Zimbabwe and found out the ins and outs of the castle. He fabricated a lie: in the 10 century BC, the queen of ancient Ethiopia went to Jerusalem several times a year to visit King Solomon, a Jew. On the way, in order to facilitate the rest, the queen was furious and built an oval palace, which is the Great Zimbabwe Castle. The oval town of the castle is modeled after the palace built by the Ethiopian Queen, and the Wei Yu in the ruins of the castle is modeled after the main hall where King Solomon lived.

Carl Monk's nonsense deceived many people. They came to Zimbabwe, not far from Wan Li, and dug around for the nonexistent treasure of King Solomon. However, they didn't even see the shadow of the treasure, and then they found themselves listening to the lies.

Some people think that gold can always be found without treasure. However, they struggled for a long time without finding gold, so they hated shameless lies.

In the 1940s, some scientists came to Great Zimbabwe one after another to conduct a detailed investigation. However, people have different opinions on the survey results. Some people think that Great Zimbabwe was built by Phoenicians from the Mediterranean coast around 2000 BC, when African aborigines were in a state of ignorance, and it was impossible to build such a beautiful castle. But others believe that Greater Zimbabwe was founded by Africans themselves in the Middle Ages. Some people think that this old castle was built by Africans under the guidance of foreigners; Some Arab archaeologists bluntly said that the Great Zimbabwe Castle was built by ancient Arab immigrants, because the cone-shaped stone towers in the oval castle are almost identical to Arab mosques and temples, which is the best proof.

Later, people discussed the residents of greater Zimbabwe. Some people say that the castle is where the ancient chiefs lived, so the earliest residents were the ancient chiefs. It is also said that this is where the ancients mined and smelted gold. Ancient residents were gold diggers. It is also said that the Great Zimbabwe Castle is an ancient religious pilgrimage site. No one can tell the truth.

See the light at the end of the tunnel

1950, several archaeologists visited greater Zimbabwe. They dug the foundation of the fence and found two pieces of wood there. What is the significance of this piece of wood for solving puzzles? Can it help people uncover the secrets of Greater Zimbabwe? People took these two pieces of wood and analyzed them by isotope C 14 test. The analysis results show that the age of this wood chip of Danbuti tree is between 1250 ~ 1450. As a result, these scientists believe that the Great Zimbabwe Castle was built from the 6th century to the 8th century, and was built by Africans who had developed architectural technology at that time. However, some people retort that the age of sawdust does not represent the age of the ancient castle. Who can guarantee that this piece of wood was not nailed long after the castle was built? Also, it is difficult for people to rule out the possibility of cutting wood first and then moving the wood that has been cut for a long time from other places to the city. Numerous problems beset researchers. It seems that the time to solve these mysteries is not short.