The Ethiopian Orthodox Church dates the top-down Christianization of Aksum circa 330 AD with King Ezana’s conversion to the monotheistic religion, under the influence of bishop Frumentius. Although ...

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The monuments in Aksum remind us of an era in which a strong, ancient civilization ruled in the Horn of Africa, categorized by UNESCO as a significant stage in human history. The stelae, mansions and ...

From biblical times to the present, she’s been an elusive figure who’s proved highly adaptable — a wise and powerful monarch; an idolatrous sun worshiper; the founding mother of an Ethiopian dynasty; ...