Ingombe Ilede

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Ingombe Ilede is an archaeological site on a hill at the mouth of the Lusitu River in the Zambezi near Siavonga in Zambia . Today it is flooded by the Kariba reservoir . The finds from the 7th to 16th centuries are among the most important of the early culture of this region. They offer artifacts of textiles believed to have come from India, bells made in West Africa, copper bars, gold believed to have been mined in Munhumutapa , ceramics whose tradition was named after the site, and pottery of a higher quality than anywhere else otherwise in Zambia before 1500. There are suspected trade relations via Munhumutapa, a trade axis to the Congo Basin in the north. Ingombe Ilede reached its heyday between 1300 and 1500. The finds are now in the Livingstone Museum in Livingstone .

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Coordinates: 16 ° 33 '  S , 28 ° 44'  E