Aksum: An African Kingdom Written in Stone and Gold
Trade, royal coinage and religious change connected Aksum’s African highlands to the wider ancient world. Its coins and inscriptions reveal rulers presenting their authority through different…
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Lalibela: The Churches Carved into an Ethiopian Landscape
Read the article: Lalibela: The Churches Carved into an Ethiopian LandscapeLalibela’s churches preserve centuries of Ethiopian craftsmanship, religious imagination and change. Archaeology complicates the familiar story of a single royal building campaign, while the carved spaces…