Aksum : an African civilisation of late antiquity
A survey of the architecture, artistic life, culture, history and religion of the Ethiopian kingdom of Aksum, which in the 3rd century AD ranked with Persia and Rome as one of the most powerful civilizations in the world. The text includes a chronology of the kingdom's first seven centuries.
Print Book, English, ©1991
Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, ©1991
History
x, 294 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9780748601066, 9780748602094, 0748601066, 0748602097
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Introduction
Legend, literature, and archaeological discovery
The city and the state
Aksumite history
The capital city
The civil administration
The monarchy
The economy
The coinage
Religion
Warfare
Material culture ; the archaeological record
Language, literature, and the arts
Society and death
The decline of Aksum
The British Institute in eastern Africa's excavations at Aksum