Aksumite is one of the stars of Michigan’s Colloquial Sound Recordings, the label that’s home to A Pregnant Light, Dressed In Streams, and a slew of other artists that move in and around ...

The basilica, from the 4th century A.D., was found in Beta Samati, an ancient town that was once part of the Aksumite civilization. The remains of the church date back to the time when ...

If we exclude the sources of the Blue Nile, ultimately a work of nature, the most important and striking monument in Ethiopia ...

In most cases, the stelae mark elite and royal burial tombs. The largest stelae appear to decorate the graves of the Aksumite kings. The monoliths are spread over multiple terrains, including fields ...

An international assemblage of scientists discovered the church 30 miles northeast of Aksum, the capital of the Aksumite kingdom, a trading empire that emerged in the first century A.D. and would ...

It emerged from a local polity in the fourth century BC to prominence in the first century AD (Proto-Aksumite period). Aksum’s rise to power is related to its agricultural productivity, and its ...

Playwright Banna Desta has brought to life an often-overlooked ancient African civilisation in her latest work - a compelling ...

The adoption of Christianity in the fourth century by the Aksumite Empire—an area corresponding with present-day Eritrea and northern Ethiopia—led to the development of a new tradition of Christian ...

Aksum was the capital of the Aksumite kingdom and a powerful trading spot that connected the Roman Empire and India. But no one knows much about this “lost” civilization located in northern ...

With several active trenches, they are looking for evidence from the pre-Aksumite era (before 300 B.C.), a period that remains something of an archaeological mystery, partially because the remains of ...

The Abyssinians is set in the 5th Century in the Aksumite Empire, also known as the Kingdom of Aksum. Aksum was a wealthy and influential monarchy that at its height spanned what is now northern ...