The Ge'ez language used in most modern day church services derives from the Kingdom of Axum. |
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The study day includes lectures on the links between Sheba and Axum, Arab merchants of the Middle Ages and Navigation and Commerce from Aden. |
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The lad carried the precious words that God inscribed on stone tablets to Ethiopia and today they reside in a little church in the ancient city of Axum. |
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Several of these old menhirs exist in Qohaito, Eritrea, and date to a period before the founding of the Kingdom of Axum. |
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Cosmas seems to have personally visited the Kingdom of Axum in modern Ethiopia and Eritrea, as well as India and Sri Lanka. |
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It minted its own currency and carved enormous monolithic steles such as the Obelisk of Axum to mark their emperors' graves. |
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In AD 703 Jeddah was briefly occupied by pirates from the Kingdom of Axum. |
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