Karl Mauch
Karl Gottlieb Mauch (May 7th 1837, April 4th 1875) was a German Explorateur. He mainly explored the south of the Africa.
In 1871, it is him which discovered the ruins of what one will call later the national Monument of Large Zimbabwe. He considered that these ruins were the remainders of the biblical city of Ophir, the city of origin of the Or given by the Queen of Sheba to the king Solomon. Mauch could not believe that this realization was made by the ancestors of the local tribes but of more thorough archaeological research (of which one of the first air research) contradicted a bond with Ophir, showing that the construction of this monument was of purely African origin.
Because of the ethnocentric Paradigme which was popular the 19th century, Mauch and to its contemporaries was very criticized by the modern historians and archeologists.
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