even the Mapungubwe collection may have been a small remnant of a much larger gold hoard
— isaac Samuel (@rhaplord) August 27, 2024
"The complete absence of any mention of gold from the various archival sources makes one wonder whether the unspoken retrieval of gold items was a primary motivation behind the visits" pic.twitter.com/Kcuz7ch55G
the gold collection of Mapungubwe
— isaac Samuel (@rhaplord) August 25, 2024
Gold fingerprinting analysis has shown that the ore used in this collection was obtained from the same mine as that exploited two centuries later by the kingdom of Thulamela, more than 200km east of Mapungubwehttps://t.co/hbQhe7TZzh pic.twitter.com/fwV0AfzwDb
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