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The Ruined Cities of Mashonaland, Being a Record of Excavation and Exploration in 1891

AT-OeAW-BA-3-27-F-00034

Authors:	Bent, James Theodore
Published in:	London New York
Published by:	Longmans, Green, and Co. , 1892

Contents:
J. Theodore Bent, (1852-1897) British explorer and archaeologist, gives an account of his explorations in Mashonaland (in northern Zimbabwe), reporting on remarkable monuments scattered between the Limpopo and the Zambesi rivers.
With regard to the origin of the Great Zimbabwe ruins, Bent thinks that they are early Arabian: 'Mashonaland may have been the land of Ophir or it may not; it may have been the land of Punt or it may not; Ophir and Punt may be identical, and both situated here, or they may be both elsewhere. ...The study of Arabian and Phoenician enterprise outside the Red Sea is only now in its infancy - have only as yet enough evidence to prove its extent, and that the ruins in Mashonaland owe their origin to it.' (pp. 194-195)
In support of his opinion, Bent quotes Eduard Glaser (1855-1908): 'So much is absolutely certain, that Himyar (Arabia) then possessed almost the whole of East Africa. Such a possession, however, was not won in a night, but rather presupposes, in those old times, without cannon and without powder, centuries of exertion.' (p. 195)

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