Axum (redirect from Aksum/people/trade)
Axum, also spelled Aksum (pronounced: /ˈɑːkˈsuːm/ ), is a town in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia with a population of 66,900 residents (as of 2015). It...
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Egypt to transport obelisks from the quarry to their destination. Fifteen centuries later, the Romans used ships to transport obelisks across the Mediterranean...
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Church, and the Beta Israel Jewish community. Hawulti Obelisk is an ancient pre-Aksumite Obelisk located in Matara, Eritrea. The monument dates to the...
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Hawulti (monument) (category Axumite obelisks)
Hawulti (Tigrinya: ሓወልቲ) is a pre-Aksumite obelisk located in Matara, Eritrea. The monument bears the oldest known example of the ancient Ge'ez script...
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Itiyopis, son of Cush. The capital was later moved to Aksum in northern Ethiopia. The Empire of Aksum, at its height, at times extended across most of present-day...
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Periplus of the Erythraean Sea (section Aksum Empire)
Erythraean Sea, §4 According to the Periplus, the ruler of Aksum was Zoscales, who, besides ruling in Aksum also held under his sway two harbours on the Red Sea:...
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obelisk fragment is that of King Teti from the Old Kingdom, found at Heliopolis. In 1902, Encyclopædia Britannica wrote: "The earliest temple obelisk...
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columns, the Obelisk of Aksum, is the largest such structure in the world, standing at 90 feet (27 metres). Under Ezana (fl. 320–360), Aksum later adopted...
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Roger D. (10 April 2008). The Ancient Languages of Mesopotamia, Egypt and Aksum. Cambridge University Press. p. 83. ISBN 9780521684972. Hasselbach-Andee...
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Ethiopian historical writing can be traced back to the ancient Kingdom of Aksum (c. AD 100 – c. 940). These early texts were written in either the Ethiopian...
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Altar of Augustan Peace (Ara Pacis Augustae) was located there, as was an obelisk imported from Egypt that formed the pointer (gnomon) of a horologium. With...
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be attested in Egyptian hieroglyphs on the Abishemu obelisk found in the Temple of the Obelisks at Byblos by Maurice Dunand. The inscription mentions...
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the third century, when the Persian prophet Mani described Rome, China, Aksum, and Persia as the four greatest kingdoms of his time. During the Napoleonic...
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List of ancient great powers (section Kingdom of Aksum)
maritime vessel known as the 'beden' to transport their cargo. The Kingdom of Aksum was an important trading nation originating from Northern Ethiopia in northeastern...
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reference to the Phoenician homeland, calling it Pūt (Phoenician: 𐤐𐤕). Obelisks at Karnak contain references to a "land of fnḫw", fnḫw being the plural...
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hohen Beschützer zu zeichnen gedachte, war wahrscheinlich "die Schlacht von Salamis". Ueber den Schiffen der siegreichen Griechen, gegen welche Artemisia...
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Malayo-Polynesian languages, notably from studies on the Melanesian languages by Georg von der Gabelentz, Robert Henry Codrington, and Sidney Herbert Ray. Codrington...
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ISSN 0014-1801. JSTOR 483368. OCLC 42388116. Pohl, Mary; Kevin O. Pope; Christopher von Nagy (2002). "Olmec Origins of Mesoamerican Writing". Science. 298 (5600):...
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microclimate and is protected from wind by the crater walls. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Lord Byron, and Charles Gounod all lived in Nemi and noted the reflection...
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Galley Penteconter Kunlun ship Liburna Longship Multihull Navis lusoria Obelisk ship Outriggers Single-outrigger Catamaran Trimaran Polyremes Bireme Oared...
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Galley Penteconter Kunlun ship Liburna Longship Multihull Navis lusoria Obelisk ship Outriggers Single-outrigger Catamaran Trimaran Polyremes Bireme Oared...
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Forma urbis Ostiae. Untersuchungen zur Entwicklung der Hafenstadt Roms von der Zeit der Republik bis ins frühe Mittelalter [Forma urbis Ostiae. Studies...
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Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-9-00-412112-6. Phillips, Jacke (1997). "Punt and Aksum: Egypt and the Horn of Africa". The Journal of African History. 38 (3)....
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Detlev (1994). "The art of Herodotus and the margins of the world". In von Martels, Z.R.W.M. (ed.). Travel Fact and Travel Fiction: Studies on fiction...
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Institute of Archaeology in Rome, Italy, and Austrian anthropologist Robert von Heine-Geldern, both of whom stated that the style of the artifact was compatible...
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Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007. Scheidel, Walter, and Sitta von Reden. The Ancient Economy. Hoboken: Taylor and Francis, 2012. Library resources...
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divinities addressed as wanassoi, is uncertain." Chadwick 1976, p. 76. Whittaker von Hofsten 2007, pp. 3–18. Hughes-Brock 1999, pp. 277–296. Stocker & Davis 2017...
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original on 6 January 2017. Retrieved 9 May 2013. Galinsky 1975, p. 181. Von Glinski, M. L. Simile and Identity in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Cambridge: 2012...
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Kulturen in Pakistan vom 8. bis 2. Jahrtausend (in German). Mainz am Rhein: P. von Zabern. pp. 132–133. ISBN 3805309570. OCLC 925200287. Ras Al Jinz Visitor...
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three "golden ages" was coined in 1845 by the German Egyptologist Baron von Bunsen, and its definition evolved significantly throughout the 19th and...
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