Talk:Khami

Merge with Khame Ruins, Zimbabwe
The Khame Ruins, Zimbabwe page deals only with the ruins of Khami. The two pages should be merged. Touchatou (talk) 11:43, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I agree - one is redundant--Sinazita (talk) 09:30, 28 May 2011 (UTC)


 * I also agree, it would be good to get some more material on the ruins of Khami and the Torwa people and then although part of the same post their own section.--Unclebun (talk) 23:50, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Supported, and the name of this page is better - same as Great Zimbabwe. Babakathy (talk) 07:22, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
 * so khame ruins,Zimbabwe page deals only with ruins of khame 77.246.52.150 (talk) 19:27, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

File:Khami.jpg Nominated for Deletion
=Merged in from Talk:Khami Ruins=

Origin?
I would like to know if anyone knows who actually built the Khame ruins--Imaran 12:51, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

timeline of Khami?
Was Khami not co-eval with Zimbabwe? If you look on map you see forts/complexes at about one day's march from each other all the way from the headwaters of the Save river to great Zimbabwe. Presumably this was where the gold-traders of the coast had established bases which then expanded with time. Was khami not one of these? Lgh (talk) 05:24, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Merge into Khami?
The page on Khami seems to cover the same ruins. Rlsiddall (talk) 01:01, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Indeed! Khami is more detailed. The two pages should be merged.Touchatou (talk) 11:39, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Done. Babakathy (talk) 07:34, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Khami ruins
Khami ruins 102.128.76.51 (talk) 07:33, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

Nice Story!
''Khami was the capital of the Torwa dynasty for about 200 years from around 1450 and appears to have been founded at the time of the disappearance of the state at Great Zimbabwe. After that (the traditional date is 1683), it was conquered by Changamire Dombo who led an army of Rozvi rebels from the Mwenemutapa ("Monomotapa") State. Excavations seem to show that the site was not occupied after these Rozvi took over. The Rozvi made another Khami phase site, Danamombe (Dhlo-Dhlo), their new capital. In the 1830s Nguni speaking Ndebele raiders displaced them from Khami and many of the other sites they had established. The site of Khami reveals seven built-up areas occupied by the royal family with open areas in the valley occupied by the commoners. The complex comprises circular, sometimes terraced, artificial platforms encased by dry stone walls. The beautifully decorated 6m-high by 68m-long retaining wall of the precipice platform bears a checkerboard design along its entire length. The platforms, rising 2–7m above the ground, carried dhaka (clay) huts and courtyards where those of lower status lived. The remnants of cattle kraals and huts for ordinary people can be seen below the Hill Complex. The ruins include a royal enclosure or Hill Complex, which had to be on higher ground than other buildings, stone walls and hut platforms, and also a Christian crossbelieved to have been placed by a contemporary missionary. There are also ruins on the eastern side of the Khami River. Other platforms are believed to have been cattle kraals and a retaining wall with a chequered pattern. Recent excavations (2000–2006) have revealed that the walls of the western parts of the Hill Complex were all decorated in chequer, herringbone, cord, as well as variegated stone blocks.''

Not a single reference! 2001:8003:70F5:2400:C572:AE62:7A6A:20D0 (talk) 08:00, 16 November 2022 (UTC)