The Kingdom of Aksum (Ge'ez: አክሱም, romanized: ʾÄksum; Sabaean: 𐩱𐩫𐩪𐩣, ʾkšm; Ancient Greek: Ἀξωμίτης, romanized: Axōmítēs) also known as the Kingdom of Axum, or the Aksumite Empire, was a kingdom in East Africa and South Arabia from classical antiquity to the Middle Ages, based in what is now northern Ethiopia ...

2025年1月8日 · Aksum, powerful kingdom in northern Ethiopia during the early Christian era. Despite common belief to the contrary, Aksum did not originate from one of the Semitic Sabaean kingdoms of southern Arabia but instead developed as a local power.

2019年3月21日 · The African kingdom of Axum (also Aksum) was located on the northern edge of the highland zone of the Red Sea coast, just above the horn of Africa. It was founded in the 1st century CE, flourished from the 3rd to 6th century CE, and then survived as a much smaller political entity into the 8th century CE.

2023年10月19日 · A major empire of the ancient world, the kingdom of Aksum arose in Ethiopia during the first century C.E. This wealthy African civilization thrived for centuries, controlling a large territorial state and access to vast trade routes …

2025年2月13日 · The Kingdom of Axum, one of the great civilizations of the ancient world, flourished in what is now modern-day Ethiopia and Eritrea. From approximately 100 CE to 940 CE, Axum played a central role in trade, politics, and religion in the Horn of Africa and beyond. Despite its historical significance, Axum is often overlooked in discussions of ...

2024年5月26日 · Axum (also spelled Aksum) was the capital of one of the most powerful and influential ancient civilizations in Africa. Located in the highlands of northern Ethiopia, Axum served as the center of the Aksumite Empire, which flourished from the …

Aksum developed a civilization and empire whose influence, at its height in the 4th and 5th centuries C.E., extended throughout the regions lying south of the Roman Empire, from the fringes of the Sahara in the west, across the Red Sea to the inner Arabian desert in the east. The Aksumites developed Africa’s only indigenous written script, Ge ...

2020年2月28日 · The Kingdom of Aksum had been known as one of the four most powerful empires in the ancient world. It spread across 480,000 miles of land and had total control of the trade routes on the Red Sea that spanned from East Asia to India.

The Aksumite Empire or Axumite Empire (sometimes called the Kingdom of Aksum or Axum), was an important trading nation in northeastern Africa, growing from the proto-Aksumite period c. fourth century B.C.E. to achieve prominence by the first century C.E.

2021年2月3日 · The kingdom and its capital of Axum designed significant stone monuments and accomplished a number of firsts, thanks to agriculture, cattle herding, and influence over trade routes that saw gold and ivory traded for overseas luxury goods.