Ingombe Ilede

Ingombe Ilede is an archaeological site on a hill at the mouth of the river Lusitu in the Zambezi near Siavonga in Zambia. She is now submerged in the Karibastausee. The finds from the 7th to the 16th centuries are among the most important of the early culture of this region. They provide artifacts of textiles, which are probably from India, bells, which have been made ​​in West Africa, copper ingots, gold, which was probably won in Munhumutapa, ceramics, whose tradition was named after the archaeological site, as well as pottery with a higher quality than anywhere otherwise in Zambia before 1500. It trade relations over Munhumutapa are suspected, a trade route to the Congo basin in the north. Ingombe Ilede reached its flowering period between 1300 and 1500. The finds are now in the Livingstone Museum.