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 ...

containing both early Christian and what may be pagan artifacts, has been unearthed in a buried town in northern Ethiopia. The finds shed a rare light on the ancient kingdom of Aksum — a ...

(NEWSER) – During a six-week excavation of the ancient city of Aksum in present-dayEthiopia ... The woman's positioning and the artifacts found by her side—including kohl eyeliner and flask ...

Inscriptions were an important feature of ancient Aksumite culture, and help us understand more about Aksumite ... The stela stands in the northwest of the present-day town of Aksum. It remains where ...

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 ...