What the record shows
The ruined port city of Adulis on the Gulf of Zula, Aksum's gateway to the Red Sea trade; excavated walls, columns and church foundations spread beneath the coastal plain.
Source record notes
Original catalogue wording is retained below, including records brought together as one work.
- Ruins of Adulis
The ruined port city of Adulis on the Gulf of Zula, Aksum's gateway to the Red Sea trade; excavated walls, columns and church foundations spread beneath the coastal plain.
- Excavated Site (8527948333)
Excavated Site (8527948333). Catalogued on Wikimedia Commons under Adulis. The file description records: An excavated site at Adulis, Eritrea. From 6th century BC until the arrival of Islam in the 7th century AD Adulis was the Red Sea port of the powerful Aksumite Empire in central Ethiopia. Photograph credited to David Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada.
- Place
- Zula · Northern Red Sea · Eritrea
- Date
- Aksumite period
- Structure or site
- Architecture & ruins
- Holding
- Wikimedia Commons