Great Ruins of Zimbabwe: Unsolved Secrets Of Bizarre Buildings Without Windows And Doors

MessageToEagle.com – There is a place occupied by the remains of about five hundred perplexing structures. Most of them are of conical shape but actually, it is not their shape that makes them so bizarre.

The lack of doors and windows and other openings made them useless for humans. The conical towers are thirty three feet thick and some of the elliptical walls are three stories tall.

The ruins extending over approximately 385,000 square miles, are located in Zimbabwe, on the high plateau of southern Africa.

“A square fortress, masonry within and without, built of stones of marvelous size, and there appears to be no mortar joining them,” wrote Joao de Barros, of the first great Portuguese historians from the sixteenth century. He also mentioned the locals – illiterate people in the area – who referred to the ruins as Zimbabwe.
No one knew when and who built them, but they were convinced that the structures were a work of the devil.

These strange buildings were built of rock, split into separate blocks and put together by some unknown method without using mortar.

In 1868, the German traveler and explorer, Adam Renders got lost in a deep South African jungle and accidentally came across the remarkable ruins near Lake Victoria.

Trying to get out of there, he was moving along the walls for a while, having the impression of going in circles. At that time, he did not know that he found the Great Ruins of Zimbabwe.

Three years later, Karl Mauch (1837 – 1875), a German explorer, adventurer and one of the first white men to find gold in the region, decided to research of ruins that could belong to a legendary land, Ophir, famous for its gold mines and governed by one of the vasals of the Queen of Sheba. Any convincing proof of his assumption has never been found.

Adam Renders, who came upon the site had perhaps no theories on its origin. But he was thinking about these curious ruins often and anxiously. He stayed the rest of his life there and died in Zimbabwe.

Who were the unknown builders of these structures? What was the original purpose of these enigmatic buildings?

Among many theories, there was one suggesting that the builders came from North Africa. Jewels, pearls and bracelets from Arabia, artwork from India and at least one thousand years old Chinese porcelain were found but no inscriptions, which could shed some light on the great mystery of the ruins.

Was Zimbabwe constructed by a lost white race? Had the ruins an astronomical purpose? Did a prehistoric race like the builders of Stonehenge create the conical towers? Without doors, windows, or other openings, these structures could not have been intended to serve humans.

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On the citadel, there have been found some soapstone birds (eagles), placed on heavy five-foot-high stone pedestals with similarities to the Egyptian statues of falcon-headed Horus piloting his flying vehicle.

Are the soapstone eagles from the Great Zimbabwe Ruins only a metaphor or a symbol of flying vehicles witnessed in the Zimbabwe’s ancient skies?

Being so skillfully put together, the walls and towers are an evidence of power, knowledge and ordered settlement. They are impressive monuments to their creators.

The puzzling origin of the Zimbabwe’s bizarre buildings still remains a mystery.

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