Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape
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Where the Limpopo and Shashe rivers meet, at the point South Africa touches Zimbabwe and Botswana, savannah hides the remains of southern Africa's first great kingdom. Mapungubwe rose to dominate the subcontinent through gold and ivory trade before its abandonment in the 14th century, leaving palace sites, settlement areas and two earlier capitals almost untouched — a 400-year record of evolving social and political order. UNESCO inscribed the landscape in 2003.
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