South Africa : World Heritage Site Mapungubwe National Park
Discover an ancient African Kingdom, Southern Africa’s first, established at Mapungubwe Hill between 1200 and 1290 AD. Home to a powerful tribe that flourished on trading with Eastern cultures such as China and India, Mapungubwe saw the rise and fall of this great civilisation more than 700 years ago. This is the place where archaeologists excavated the famous golden rhino and other evidence of a wealthy African kingdom.
Mapungubwe National Park and World Heritage Site is the ideal location for anyone interested in wildlife and birds, to those in search of serenity, identity and the extraordinary history of this Park
The Mapungubwe Golden Rhinoceros is a small archaeological artefact found in 1932 in Mapungubwe, South Africa. In the archaeological context in which it was found, it is evidence of a powerful “kingdom” that flourished from the 9th to the 13th century. It has become the emblem of the Order of Mapungubwe, South Africa’s highest distinction.
The Golden Rhinoceros has become the emblem of Mapungubwe. Its existence demonstrates the richness of southern Africa’s past before the arrival of Europeans. As a result, it was left aside during apartheid, but it is an important symbolic element of South Africa’s reappropriation of its long history since
More on : https://www.sanparks.org/parks/mapungubwe
Par Marius Loots — Travail personnel, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2676382
