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🇪🇷 Eritrea · Ancient city
Pre-Aksumite to Late Aksumite to Early Islamic (500 BCE–8th c CE; peak 1st–6th c) · Pre-Aksumite D'MT → Aksumite (South Arabian/Eritrean)
40 ha Aksumite–Roman Red Sea port of Periplus linking elephant ivory to Mediterranean with temple and 4th-c basilica plus trilingual Monumentum Adulitanum.
🇪🇷 Eritrea · Ancient city
Pre-Aksumite Ethio-Sabaean to Late Aksumite (800 BCE–800 CE) · Ethio-Sabaean D'MT / pre-Aksumite → Aksumite
10 ha highland caravans town with Hawulti 5.5 m Sabaean obelisk, Aksumite stelai, palace of Kaskase and dam reservoir.
🇪🇷 Eritrea · Ancient city
Axumite (1st c BCE – 7th c CE; Adulis port 1st c CE Periplus) · Axumite / South Arabian / Greco-Roman trade
Axumite Mediterranean port in Zula Bay where Paribeni and Sundström found Axumite church (5th c), Roman wine amphorae and glass, linking Axum to Roman trade; Periplus harbour descr...