In honor of the USA's Black History Month in February, MSN's Travel Noire channel published a list of nine remarkable subsaharan historical landmarks built by black Africans, and this is one of them: the UNESCO World Heritage royal palace built by the ancestral Shona beginning in the 9th century and abandoned in the 15th, spanning 7.22 square kilometers (2.79 sq. miles) near the present-day town of Masvingo.

For more details on this and the eight other sites, click here.

 
(source: John Gudorf Photography)