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HYohannes · 2025
… lowlands of Eritrea and Ethiopia in the early 2nd century AD. Own work. Around the turn of the 2nd century AD, the highlands of what are now Eritrea and Ethiopia were likely fragmented, with various polities controlling different regions 1 . Long-established …
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HYohannes · 2025
… infancy, their are over 90 “pre-aksumite” archeological sites 7 . Some sites, like the ‘Ona Culture’, which I previously discussed, seem to display very little Sabaeic influence at this time. Commoners Throughout the first millennium BC, various polities emerged in the region. …
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HYohannes · 2026
… (ደዐመተ), emerged in parts of present-day southern Eritrea and Tigray in the early first millennium BC. Rather than ties with Egypt, DʿMT had links with the Sabaean Kingdom to the east, which I explained in further detail in my article on DʿMT. …
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HYohannes · 2025
… of the bowl. During this early period, about which little is known, Matara's inhabitants began laying the foundations of what would later become a powerful city-state. Its central position between the region’s major powers—the port city of Adulis to the south and …
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Christine Sciacca, ed., Ethiopia at the Crossroads (Baltimore: The Walters Art Museum, in association with Yale University Press, 2023).
Stamp with Identity Mark of HANAT. second half of the 1st century BCE; bronze; Yaha (Ethiopia).
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Aksum, Yǝḥa and the monumental landscape of central Tigray
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HYohannes · 2026
… This is particularly significant, as Narjan was historically an Aksumite stronghold, suggesting that by the early 3rd century AD, the Aksumites had already controlled this strategic gateway to the Tihama trade routes. The inscription reads as follows: [Sym- ˁAbkarib ˁA]hras, descendant of …