The Ethiopian Orthodox Church dates the top-down Christianization of Aksum circa 330 AD with King Ezana’s conversion to the monotheistic religion, under the influence of bishop Frumentius. Although ...

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 ...

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 ...