The Ethiopian city of Aksum was inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List in 1980. Its cultural property encompasses the ancient Aksum town, which houses hundreds of stelae (granite monoliths), ...

Coins issued by Ezana during his lifetime seem ... Later in his life, though, the king replaced that iconography with a single cross. “Aksum converted to Christianity in the fourth century ...

Some of the coins issued during Ezana’s reign display the crescent ... maintained a false door as its principal feature. Over the years, Aksum became a major religious centre and an important place of ...

The ruins of the ancient city of Aksum are found close to Ethiopia's northern border. They mark the location of the heart of ancient Ethiopia, when the Kingdom of Aksum was the most powerful state ...