In his 1552 Da Asia, João de Barros identifies it as Axuma, one of the cities of the Queen of Sheba; others identified it as the gold-mining Biblical city of Ophir. David Randall-MacIver confirmed its African origins in 1905, but the white Rhodesian government of the time refused to accept this. Founded by Shona-speaking peoples on a medieval trade route between inland gol
In his 1552 Da Asia, João de Barros identifies it as Axuma, one of the cities of the Queen of Sheba; others identified it as the gold-mining Biblical city of Ophir. David Randall-MacIver confirmed its African origins in 1905, but the white Rhodesian government of the time refused to accept this. Founded by Shona-speaking peoples on a medieval trade route between inland gold mines and the seaports on the Mozambique coast, this is, FTP, what 1,800-acre granite ruin of a city located between the Limpopo and Zambezi rivers in what is now its namesake country?
In his 1552 Da Asia, João de Barros identifies it as Axuma, one of the cities of the Queen of Sheba; others identified it as the gold-mining Biblical city of Ophir.