Alongside traditional standards, a Christian culture developed. Aksum was the alleged home of the Biblical Queen of Sheba, and the Ark of the Covenant. Churches were built in honour of them, and in ...

If we exclude the sources of the Blue Nile, ultimately a work of nature, the most important and striking monument in Ethiopia ...

Over the past two decades, however, Harrower and other archaeologists have searched outside Aksum proper ... role that Christianity played in their culture, and, above all, underscored the ...

Aksum is a holy site for Ethiopian Orthodox ... The city's residents observed the culture of welcoming strangers into their homes and offering them food. People also stayed in church compounds ...