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Tagsaksum
2 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇪🇹 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.
