AncientarchitectureMain Wall in Anfray's Trench, Adulis
Figure 9.2 View of the main wall exposed in Anfray's trench
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AncientarchitectureFigure 9.2 View of the main wall exposed in Anfray's trench
AncientarchitectureFigure 3.3 A view of the church during the exacavtion by the British Museum
AncientarchitectureFigure 284 Temple A southern walls excavated by Paribeni. Note the six courses visible. Image reproduced form Paribeni (1907)
AncientarchitectureFigure 296 Temple C excavation image. Reproduced from Romanelli (1930)
Northern Red Sea · Eritrea
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ModernarchitectureThe Imperial Palace on Massawa island, rebuilt in the 1870s over a 16th-century predecessor and shattered in the war of independence; its dome and arcaded shell dominate the old harbour front.
MedievalarchitectureThe Sheikh Hanafi mosque in the old town of Massawa, among the oldest of the island's coral-block mosques.
architectureThe coral-block and Ottoman-Egyptian fabric of Massawa's island old town — arcaded merchant houses, roshan balconies and covered passages of the Red Sea port.
architectureThe Mosque of the Companions at Massawa, by tradition raised for the first Muslim emigrants who crossed to Aksumite Africa, and so among the oldest mosque sites in Africa; the standing structure is later.
architectureThe Shaafi mosque in the old town of Massawa island, one of the port's coral-block mosques.
architectureThe Hamal al-Ansari mosque of Massawa's old town, a small coral-stone mosque of the island port.
ModernarchitectureThe Orthodox cathedral of St Mary on Massawa island, its modern tower rising over the old port's roofline.
ModernarchitectureThe terminus of the Eritrean Railway at Massawa, the Italian-period station from which the line climbed to Asmara.
ModernarchitectureHistorical building in Massawa, Eritrea. Recorded on Wikidata as a palace dated 1928.
MedievalarchitectureTomb of Sheikh Durbush is a tomb in Massawa. Recorded on Wikidata as a tomb dated 16th century.
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ModernarchitectureThe Italian-built bridge at Dogali on the road and railway from Massawa to the highlands, beside the field of the battle of 1887.
ModernarchitectureThe station of Nefasit on the Eritrean Railway, where the line from Massawa begins its final climb through the escarpment to Asmara.
AncientarchitectureThe 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.
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