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Foundations of an African Civilisation - Aksum and the northern Horn, 1000 BC - AD 1300 (Paperback)
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Foundations of an African Civilisation - Aksum and the northern Horn, 1000 BC - AD 1300 (Paperback)
Series: Eastern Africa Series
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A single coherent narrative of Aksumite civilisation revealing the
roots of medieval Christian Ethiopia. This well-illustrated book
provides an up-to-date survey of a key period in the history of
northern Ethiopia and south-central Eritrea. It is accessible to
the general reader, but its comprehensive references and guidance
to controversies and research needs will render it invaluable to
specialists and students. It considers how the region's literate
communities arose and flourished during the last millennium BC,
giving rise to the Aksumite civilisation whose achievements and
intercontinental significance are increasingly recognised, and
which formed an integral but often neglected component of the
Christian world in Late Antiquity. Aksum is now seen as the
ancestor of the region'smedieval Christian kingdom whose churches
and associated art continue to attract many visitors to Ethiopia.
David W. Phillipson is Emeritus Professor of African Archaeology
and former Director of the University Museum of Archaeology &
Anthropology, Cambridge. In 2014 he was made an Associate Fellow of
the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences. Published in association with
the British Institute in Eastern Africa. Ethiopia: Addis Ababa
University Press
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