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 ...

The finds shed a rare light on the ancient kingdom of Aksum — a relatively little-known North African civilization that was among the first to convert to Christianity in the fourth century.