By Stuart Munro-Hay 1. The Rulers The government of Aksum, as far as can be discerned, was administered through a pyramid of authority expanding as it passed from the king to the lower echelons. There is some slight evidence that at times there may have been two kings reigning contemporaneously (Ch. 7: 3), but in such […]
India has always been a land of mystery. The facts of her beginning and the origin of her culture have been the subject of much contradiction. Some would pronounce her a land of late development and that her rock-hewn temples and hoary monuments were built after the beginning of the Christian era. Rawlinson says of […]
By Stuart Munro-Hay The kingship was thus of a sacred or semi-sacred character (for a study of this aspect in later times see Caquot 1957). On the coins, the reigning monarch is depicted equipped with a regalia formed from various insignia whose significance is in some cases obvious, and in others obscure. The majority of […]
By Stuart Munro-Hay Within the expanded Aksumite kingdom, a number of flourishing urban communities appear to have grown up. Adulis, the chief Aksumite, and probably pre-Aksumite, port, and Aksum itself are special cases; but it seems, from archaeological and literary evidence, that a number of other towns became established on trade routes or crossroads, or […]
M. Chabas regards a space at least of 4000 years, preceding the first Dynasty as absolutely necessary to such development as Egypt possessed at the time of the Fourth Dynasty. The art of the Old Empire was vigorous and full of original genius but the art of later times was stiff and conventional. The oldest religion had […]
by E.A. Wallis Budge, [1932] His Resurrection The prophet DAVID aDavidrophesied, concerning His Resurrection and said, “I will arise, saith the Lord, and I will make salvation and manifest it openly.” And again he saith, “Rise up, O Lord, and judge the earth, for Thou shalt inherit among the nations.” And he also prophesied and said, “Rise up, […]
Perhaps the most frequently quoted remark about Ethiopia occurs in a brief excursus on the Ethiopian church which Edward Gibbon included in his monumental work The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, written at the end of the eighteenth century; `Encompassed on all sides by the enemies of their religion the Æthiopians slept near […]
For the non-historian in particular it is necessary to provide the background for Europe’s longstanding romance with Ethiopia–which nineteenth-century writers christened Abyssinia to appreciate why Napier’s liberation expedition became a cause celebre in the mid-nineteenth century. The early history of Ethiopia is filled with legend and romance. To the ancient Greek writers Ethiopians were among […]
15- 1. The Failure of Resources By Stuart Munro-Hay The long period of occupation of the city of Aksum evidently had a profound effect on the surrounding countryside, from which it drew the materials of subsistence. Some of the processes set in the train can be inferred from the present state of the land, and consideration […]
By Stuart Munro-Hay From the reign of king Endubis, we are fortunate in having the newly issued coinage, in gold, silver, and bronze, to guide us in tracing out a framework for the history and chronology of Aksum (Munro-Hay, loc. var.; Hahn 1983). The issue of a coinage (Ch. 9) is of very great importance in […]
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