Kha­mi, which devel­oped after the cap­i­tal of Great Zim­bab­we had been aban­doned in the mid-16th cen­tu­ry, is of great archae­o­log­i­cal inter­est. The dis­cov­ery of objects from Europe and Chi­na shows that Kha­mi was a major cen­tre for trade over a long peri­od of time.