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Tagsaksumite
3 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇪🇷 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.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Temple complex
Aksumite to Zagwe (6th c–12th c; core 6th c Nine Saints) · Ethiopian Orthodox (Aksumite Christian) monastic
Amba-top monastery accessible only by 15 m leather rope, founded 6th c by Nine Saint Aregawi on precipice with Aksumite wood-monkey-head church.
🇪🇷 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.