Antiquities Division, Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism [1]
Owner
Tanzania Government
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Official name
Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Ruins of Songo Mnara
Type
Cultural
Criteria
iii
Designated
1981 (5th session)
Reference no.
144
UNESCO Region
Africa
Endangered
2004–2014[2]
National Historic Sites of Tanzania
Official name
Songo Mnara Ruins
Type
Cultural
Location of Songo Mnara Ruins in Tanzania
Songo Mnara is a historic Swahiili settlement in located on Songo Mnara Island in Pande Mikoma, Kilwa District in Lindi Region of Tanzania. The island is home to a Medieval Swahili stone town. The stone town was occupied from the 14th to 16th centuries.[3] Songo Mnara has been recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, along with nearby stone town Kilwa Kisiwani.[4] In total, archaeologists have found six mosques, four cemeteries, and two dozen house blocks along with three enclosed open spaces on the island.[5] Songo Mnara was constructed from rough-coral and mortar.[6] This stonetown was built as one of many trade towns on the Indian Ocean.[4]
The site is a registered National Historic Site.[7]
^"Antiquities Division". Retrieved 21 Jul 2022.
^Tanzania’s Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Ruins of Songo Mnara removed from UNESCO List of World Heritage in Danger at UNESCO website
^Stoetzel, Jack (2011). "Field Report: Archaeological Survey of Songo Mnara Island". Nyame Akuma. 76: 9–14.
^ abWelham, K.; Fleisher, J.; Cheetham, P.; Manley, H.; Steele, C.; Wynne-Jones, S. (2014). "Geophysical Survey in Sub-Saharan Africa: Magnetic and Electromagnetic Investigation of UNESCO World Heritage Site of Songo Mnara, Tanzania". Archaeological Prospection. 21 (4): 255–262. doi:10.1002/arp.1487. hdl:1911/97372. S2CID 56425826.
^Fleisher, Jeffrey; Wynne-Jones, Stephanie (2012). "Finding Meaning in Ancient Swahili Spatial Practices". African Archaeological Review. 29 (2–3): 171–207. doi:10.1007/s10437-012-9121-0. S2CID 144615197.
^Fleisher, Jeffery. "How Public Space is Used in Ancient Cities: The Case of Songo Mnara, a Medieval Swahili City in Tanzania" (PDF). Retrieved 20 October 2014. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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SongoMnara Island is an island located in Pande Mikoma ward in Kilwa District in Lindi Region of Tanzania's Indian Ocean coast. The island is home to...
designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site along with the nearby ruins of SongoMnara. Despite its significant historic reputation, Kilwa Kisiwani is still...
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L2a1a2. At SongoMnara, in Tanzania, an individual, dated between 1294 cal CE and 1392 cal CE, carried haplogroups R1a and L3e3a. At SongoMnara, in Tanzania...
the thriving urban centers of Mombasa, Lamu and Malindi in Kenya and SongoMnara, Kilwa Kisiwani, and Zanzibar in Tanzania. The distribution of Swahili...
L2a1a2. At SongoMnara, in Tanzania, an individual, dated between 1294 cal CE and 1392 cal CE, carried haplogroups R1a and L3e3a. At SongoMnara, in Tanzania...
the Stone Town: Maritime Architecture at Fourteenth–Fifteenth Century SongoMnara, Tanzania". Journal of Maritime Archaeology. 7 (1): 43–62. Bibcode:2012JMarA...
of decline in conservation efforts. The Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and SongoMnara were listed between 2004 and 2014 because of the deterioration and decay...
31st session 2007, pp. 21–22 "Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Ruins of SongoMnara". UNESCO. Retrieved 28 May 2010. 28th session 2004, pp. 96–97 "Rwenzori...
of 8,094. The ward is home to the island of SongoMnara Island which is home to the ruins of SongoMnara, a World Heritage Site. The ward seat is Pande...
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Tanzania since 2004. Two coelacanths were initially reported captured off SongoMnara, a small island off the edge of the Indian Ocean in August 2003. A spate...
Other Swahili stone-town locations, like as Shanga, Gede, Kilwa, and SongoMnara, have comparable peg holes. Plaster with Incisions In seven of the 43...
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in its territory with the largest being SongoMnara Island, followed by Kilwa Kisiwani Island and SongoSongo Island. Lindi Region has a tropical savanna...
estimated to date between 1421 BP and 1307 BP, carried haplogroup L0a. At SongoMnara, in Tanzania, an individual, dated between 1294 cal CE and 1392 cal CE...
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toward an archaeology of slavery at the fifteenth-century Swahili site of SongoMnara" (PDF). Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa. 55 (4): 439–457. doi:10...
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