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3 places to sift through. Narrow by kind, country, period or how firmly each one is established — contested and pseudoarchaeological claims are labelled here, never hidden.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Temple complex
Pre-Aksumite Ethio-Sabaean (D'MT) Early South Arabian to Aksumite (800 BCE–500 CE) · Ethio-Sabaean (D'MT; South Arabian migrants + Tigrayan)
Africa's oldest standing building – 14 m high 700 BCE Sabaean Almaqah temple intact with dry-jointed ashlar sandstone.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Rock art
Later Stone Age / Aksumite · Pre-Aksumite / Aksumite
45 m long granite shelter with paintings of plough oxen, humpless cattle and inscriptions, plus 13 ka LSA through Aksumite stratigraphy.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Megalith
Aksumite · Aksumite / Ge'ez
Capital of Aksumite Kingdom (100 BCE–940 CE) with monolithic granite stelae quarried 4 km, carved to imitate multi-storey buildings with false doors/windows, elite tombs, palaces.
