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 ...

The city of Aksum evolved from a ceremonial centre in the first century AD, with over 10,000 inhabitants, into the commercial and administrative centre of the Aksumite Kingdom. The kingdom was at its ...

“Aksum converted to Christianity in the fourth century, really much earlier than almost any other major kingdom,” Harrower says. The ruins of the Christian basilica in Beta Samati date to the ...