Aksum | History, Map, Empire, & Definition | Britannica
2024年11月29日 · Aksum, powerful kingdom in northern Ethiopia during the early Christian era. Despite common belief to the contrary, Aksum did not originate from one of the Semitic Sabaean kingdoms of southern Arabia but instead developed as a local power. At its apogee (3rd–6th century ce), Aksum became the
Kingdom of Aksum - Wikipedia
The Kingdom of Aksum (Ge'ez: አክሱም, romanized: ʾÄksum; Sabaean: 𐩱𐩫𐩪𐩣, ʾkšm; Ancient Greek: Ἀξωμίτης, romanized: Axōmítēs) also known as the Kingdom of Axum, or the Aksumite Empire, was a kingdom in East Africa and South Arabia from classical antiquity to the Middle Ages, based in what is now northern Ethiopia ...
Aksum | Ancient City, Stelae, Ruins, & Map | Britannica
At least 27 carved stone thrones have been unearthed in the overgrown ruins of the ancient palace. Aksum has long been regarded a holy city for the Ethiopian Orthodox church.
Kingdom of Axum - World History Encyclopedia
2019年3月21日 · The African kingdom of Axum (also Aksum) was located on the northern edge of the highland zone of the Red Sea coast, just above the horn of Africa. It was founded in the 1st century CE, flourished from...
Smarthistory – The kingdom of Aksum
Aksum was the name of a city and a kingdom which is essentially modern-day northern Ethiopia (Tigray province) and Eritrea. Research shows that Aksum was a major naval and trading power from the 1st to the 7th centuries C.E.
The Kingdom of Aksum - Education
2023年10月19日 · A major empire of the ancient world, the kingdom of Aksum arose in Ethiopia during the first century C.E. This wealthy African civilization thrived for centuries, controlling a large territorial state and access to vast trade routes …
Features - Africa's Merchant Kings - Archaeology Magazine
Hundreds of ancient obelisks and stelas are strewn across fields on the outskirts of Aksum, a city in the highlands of northern Ethiopia’s Tigray region. The largest of these monuments, which...
Aksum | For UNESCO World Heritage Travellers
Aksum is an archaeological site that covers the remains of an influential city of ancient Ethiopia. It was the capital of the powerful Axumite Kingdom (1st-8th centuries CE), which played an important role at the crossroads of Africa, Arabia and the Greco-Roman World. The site is especially known for its large monolithic carved stelae and obelisks.
Aksum - UNESCO World Heritage
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 between the Eastern Roman Empire and Persia.
Aksum the African Iron Age Kingdom - ThoughtCo
2019年7月3日 · The earliest monumental architecture indicating the beginnings of the polity of Aksum has been identified at Bieta Giyorgis hill, near Aksum, beginning about 400 BC (the Proto-Aksumite period). There, archaeologists have also found …
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