Monastic architecture
ደብረ ዳሞ/Dabra Dammo
A 1,500-Year-Old Aksumite Monastery, On-Top Of A Natural Fortress That Withstood The Test of Time.
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How the ancient and medieval northern Horn built — dressed stone and timber, basilica and monastery — read from the surviving evidence.
Aksumite palaces
Aksumite Era Architecture: Part 1 - Palaces
The Aksumite Empire endured for nearly a millennium, amassing considerable wealth over the centuries. Some of this wealth was invested in the construction of grand and elaborate structures.
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Cathedral architecture
Aksumite Architecture Part 2: Maryam Tsion (Cathedral Of Our Lady Mary Of Zion)
Maryam Tsion (Cathedral Of Our Lady Mary Of Zion)
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Interactive reconstruction
The Great Temple of Yeha
Walk through an interactive reconstruction of the seventh-century BCE Great Temple at Yeha — the northern Horn’s earliest monumental building, raised in finely dressed limestone.
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