Great Zimbabwe Site-Emblem T-Shirt

Great Zimbabwe: the Conical Tower in mortarless dry stone with its chevron band and a carved soapstone bird, above a fine-line drawing of the tower inside the Great Enclosure's ring wall. Built between about 1100 and 1450 by ancestors of the Shona, the city gave the modern country its name. Printed beneath: the site name, country and coordinates.

• The Conical Tower and a carved Zimbabwe Bird, drawn in colour
• Fine-line plan of the tower inside the Great Enclosure
• Site name, country and coordinates printed beneath, from Pyramason's own catalogue
• Bella + Canvas 3001 unisex tee in black: 100% combed and ring-spun cotton, 4.2 oz, retail fit, sizes S to 2XL, printed to order

Why this site. Great Zimbabwe is where colonial denial of African engineering was at its most brazen, and where the correction is most complete: this monument gave the modern country its name. We will not compound that history by inventing a test we did not run. Our atlas currently holds no other catalogued site within 200 kilometres, so our geometry engine has nothing to measure against and we say so. Sub-Saharan Africa is the largest gap in our coverage and closing it is on the roadmap. The documented history is already remarkable without a hidden network.

Great Zimbabwe · Zimbabwe · 20°16'15.4"S 30°55'59.5"E