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Aksum

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Aksum or Axum , town (1994 pop. 27,148), Tigray region, N Ethiopia. Aksum was the capital of an empire (c.1st-8th cent. AD) that controlled much of what is now N Ethiopia. In the 4th cent. the emperor Ezana was converted to Christianity, and today Aksum is a major center of Ethiopian Christianity. The Ark of the Covenant is said to have been brought there from Jerusalem in Solomon's time and placed in the church of St. Mary of Zion, where Ethiopia's emperors were later crowned. The town is also noted for its gigantic carved pre-Christian obelisks, and there is an extensive underground royal... Read more
Ethiopia
Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names Ethiopia (Amharic: Ītyop'iya) Aksum, Abyssinia The Federal Democratic Republic ... ‘appearance’. When the Kings of Aksum wrote in Greek they referred to their country ... –45). Some early rulers also used Aksum to describe the northern part of modern ... Read more
Ethiopian architecture
A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ... Melazo region and in Yeha, and the large Ta'aka Maryam palace, Aksum ( c. C1 bc–ad C5—with a central pavilion on a ... buildings on all four sides), have been excavated. The city of Aksum also possessed large necropoleis, with many granite stelai ... Read more

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Ethiopians certain providence, history protects their ancient city of Aksum.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 6/23/1998; Tucker, Neely; 787 words ; AKSUM, Ethiopia _The towering obelisk that symbolizes Ethiopia ... threatened with all-out war. The dirt airstrip in the town of Aksum is shut down. The Ethiopian army is rushing thousands of ... other national site matches the historical significance of Aksum, a dusty city in the northern highlands ... . Read more
BRIDGING TWO WORLDS: The Aksum-Arabia Axis
Middle East; 12/1/2006; Williams, Stephen; 787 words ; The importance and influence of Aksum, an ancient empire that once held sway ... from Africa's interior across the Red Sea, Aksum's foundations are thought to have originated ... But what is clear are the links between Aksum and southern Arabia. A recent excavation ... Read more
Changing Settlement Patterns in the Aksum-Yeha Region of Ethiopia: 700 BC-AD 850
The International Journal of African Historical Studies; 1/1/2008; Curtis, Matthew C; 787 words ; Changing Settlement Patterns in the Aksum-Yeha Region of Ethiopia: 700 BC-AD 850. By Joseph W. Michels ... Archaeopress, 2005. Pp. xvii, 256; 55 tables, 59 figures, maps, drawings, plans, and photographs, 6 appendices of data ... Joseph W. Michels' Changing Settlement Patterns in the Aksum-Yeha Region of ... Read more
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Antiquity; 3/1/2002; Connah, Graham; 787 words ; DAVID W. PHILLIPSON. Archaeology at Aksum, Ethiopia, 1993-7. xix+538 pages, 431 figures ... and fieldwork in and around the town of Aksum, in northeast Ethiopia. This research project ... It has long been appreciated that the Aksum area attained a high level of socio-political ... Read more
The Ark for Those Who Believe.(ark of the covenant )
U.S. News & World Report; 11/26/2007; Georgelas, Todd; 369 words ; ... St. Mary of Zion Church in the town of Aksum. Ethiopian legend holds that the ark was ... island mesa in Lake Tana before ending up in Aksum, where Ethiopian Orthodoxy--a Christian ... such as the Shroud of Turin, the ark at Aksum can be seen only by its solitary guardian ... Read more
Rumours of life greatly exaggerated
The Spectator; 4/16/2005; Ziegler, Philip; 787 words ; ... described it in the late 18th century - in Aksum, a town now inconsiderable but once the ... certain as to how this relic found its way to Aksum. The Queen of Sheba heard tales of Solomon ... of his acquisition and installed it at Aksum. With brief sojourns elsewhere when hostile ... Read more
Point of no return; Plundered treasures.(Ethiopia wants its stuff back)
The Economist (US); 10/9/2004; 652 words ; ... from the fourth century and comes from Aksum, a northern Ethiopian town where it probably ... was shipped as fascist booty to Rome. In Aksum one elderly Ethiopian, Abebe Alemayehu ... Djibouti, is 900 kilometres (560 miles) from Aksum, across roads and bridges which may not ... Read more
Ethiopians Yearn for Monument; Italians Carted Off Ancient Marker During the 1930s
The Washington Post; 2/3/2002; Matthew Rosenberg; 685 words ; ... World War II. While commonly called the Aksum Obelisk, it is technically a stele -- an ... Ethiopian Culture Ministry official in Aksum, standing alongside the deep hole that ... Ethiopia's conversion to Christianity. Most of Aksum's other steles are believed to have been ... Read more
Ethiopia
MapQuest.com; 9/16/1998; 129 words ; MapQuest.com 09-16-1998 Map of Ethiopia Addis Ababa Adigrat Ahmar Mts. Aksum Arba Minch' Asela Asosa Audo Range Awash National Park Awash R. Aysha Bab al Mandab Bahir Dar Blue Nile R. Boundary undemarcated ... Read more
Ethiopian evil eye belief and the magical symbolism of iron working.(Topics, Notes And Comments)
Folklore; 12/1/2003; Finneran, Niall; 787 words ; Whilst undertaking an archaeological survey in the area around the northern Ethiopian town of Aksum in late 1995 I spotted what appeared to be an obvious short cut on our map. Suggesting to my Ethiopian colleague that we could ... Read more

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