The establishment of Arab control over the Red Sea - destroying Adulis between 702 and 715 AD - effectively isolated the kingdom from its religious companions to the north. Subsequently, Aksum could ...

The Stela of Aksum or Stela Two is approximately 24 m high and weighs 200 tonnes. In accordance with Italy’s Fascist ideal of re-establishing the Roman Empire, both physically and culturally, Italian ...

The Aksum Empire dominated the Horn of Africa. Aksum was famous for many things in its lifetime, including establishing ...

The ruins of the ancient city of Aksum are found close to Ethiopia's northern border. They mark the location of the heart of ancient Ethiopia, when the Kingdom of Aksum was the most powerful state ...

The Ethiopian branch of Christianity first emerged in the kingdom of Aksum in the northern corner of the Ethiopian highlands. The person who introduced Christianity to Aksum is said to be ...

The first kingdom there is documentary evidence for in Africa is Aksum, which is thought to have emerged in the second century. In ancient times, Ethiopia was centred around Aksum and had its ...

Through North Africa, Christianity was embraced as the religion of dissent against the expanding Roman Empire. In the 4th century AD the Ethiopian King Ezana made Christianity the kingdom's ...