Shift 12 - Episode 96: The Kingdom of Maphugubwe

One thousand years ago, Mapungubwe in Limpopo province was the centre of the largest kingdom in the subcontinent, where a highly sophisticated people traded gold and ivory with China, India and Egypt.
The kingdom of Mapungubwe ‘disappeared’ around 1300AD, Why?
There is controversy regarding the origin and meaning of the name Mapungubwe. Conventional wisdom has it that Mapungubwe means ‘place of Jackals’ or alternatively ‘place where Jackals eat’. In Shona, the language spoken by the majority of people in Zimbabwe, the prefix ma means ‘many’. Pungu on the other hand is a suffix from ‘chapungu’ the bateleur eagle, which is widely believed to be the model for the Zimbabwean birds, which once graced the massive Great Zimbabwe royal complex. The prefix ‘bwe’ is a diminutive of the word ‘ibwe’ which means stone or rock in Shona language.
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