The World Heritage Centre and the Advisory Bodies were alerted through press reports to the granting in February 2010 of a coal mining permit to an Australian company, Coal of Africa Ltd (CoA), in an ...

Where the Limpopo and Shashe Rivers meet, forming the modern border between Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe, lies a hill that hardly stands out from the rest. One could easily pass it without ...

The award-winning Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre was officially opened at Mapungubwe National Park outside Musina in South Africa's Limpopo province on Monday. Mapungubwe National Park, celebrates ...

Mapungubwe is a world heritage site and national park located on the border between South Africa, Zimbabwe and Botswana. From about 1000 AD the settlement there developed into a major African state ...

Even in places like Europe, where history is right around every corner, it is not easy to imagine, standing outside a towering cathedral, what life must have been like for the occupants of the city in ...

Paleodemographic studies have seldom been attempted in sub-Saharan Africa. The Mapungubwe complex of sites in northern Transvaal (A. D. 970-1200) has yielded enough skeletal material to warrant such ...

The United Nations has voiced its concern over a coal mine adjacent to the Mapungubwe heritage site in Limpopo, the Sunday Independent reported. Part of this ancient landscape is protected within the ...

This article was originally published in The Conversation. Read the original article. It may be small enough to sit in the palm of your hand, but even now—nearly 800 years after it was hidden from ...

CSIR Archeologist Marc Pienaar explains carbon dating. 13.07.2009 Cameraperson: Nicholas Boyd. Editing: Darlene Creamer. Scientists from the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and ...

doubts whether any other new mining development will be permitted in the region around the Mapungubwe National Park, a world heritage site and the location of the company’s Vele colliery. Vele, ...

Mapungubwe is set hard against the northern border of South Africa, joining Zimbabwe and Botswana. It is an open, expansive savannah landscape at the confluence of the Limpopo and Shashe rivers.

Where the Limpopo and Shashe Rivers meet, forming the modern border between Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe, lies a hill that hardly stands out from the rest. One could easily pass it without ...