Great Zimbabwe is very cool and a fascinating structure, but I feel that these gushing descriptions are a bit over the top. Compare Great Zimbabwe to the 2000

Great Zimbabwe is very cool and a fascinating structure, but I feel that these gushing descriptions are a bit over the top. Compare Great Zimbabwe to the 2000 year older Gate of Ishtar, or even the 3500 year older Ziggurat of Ur. Even backwaters like Scandinavia had more impressive structures a millennium earlier, in the iron age, like Eketorp.