Great Zimbabwe, Southern Africa: * The city of Great Zimbabwe is continuously built between the 11th and 15th Centuries, when it is abandoned. * Under the name N’gorso the Mighty, Bartimaeus works here for a time, as does Faquarl. * Although many details are obscure, Bartimaeus is certainly present during its decline in the 1450s, when he watches as ‘the stones fell and the jackals fed on its people’. * It may be during this period that he fights with ‘clever Tchue of the Kalahari’.