Site · Africa outside Egypt
Kingdom of Mapungubwe
Mapungubwe's gold rhino weighs only 37.4g. It was gold foil nailed over a wooden carving.
From 1000 CE to 1200 CE, the area saw higher rainfall, facilitating growth in…
What made it fade?
Photo: JJ van Zyl, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons