The Ethiopian city of Aksum was inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List in 1980. Its cultural property encompasses the ancient Aksum town, which houses hundreds of stelae (granite monoliths), ...

From the seventh to eighth century onwards, the Aksumite Kingdom fell in decline due to a combination of mutually reinforcing factors. Civil wars threatened Aksumite power in the Horn of Africa. In ...

Focuses on the Aksumite state of the first millennium AD in northern Ethiopia and southern Eritrea, its development, florescence and eventual transformation into the so-called medieval civilisation ...