The history of the Axum Empire and Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. The two Christian missionaries that showed up in the ancient northeastern African empire of Axum in the fourth century could ...

Update (Feb. 26): A new report by Amnesty International, based on interviews with 40 witnesses, also alleges that Eritrean soldiers systematically killed “many hundreds” of people in Axum.

Christian missionaries had converted the kingdom of Axum to the faith about 200 years before his reign. According to standard accounts, the man who would become St. Elesbaan ruled Axum during the ...

the city of Axum is the holiest of places. They believe it to be home to the Ark of the Covenant, or the original Ten Commandments, and the birthplace of Ethiopian Christianity. “I would die to ...

Profiting from this trade Axum grew into the dominant force in the Red Sea area and an ally of Constantinople - eventual capital of the Greek-speaking, and Christian, Byzantine Empire. Cultural ...

Episode six - the rise of Christianity in Egypt and powerful Christian states in Axum and Nubia. When Europeans arrived in Africa they claimed they were bringing Christianity to a benighted continent.

Kept under lock and key in a bright-blue circular hut at the centre of the isolated monastery, the Garima Gospels are one of the Christian ... was then the kingdom of Axum in 494 and went on ...

2nd century AD - Kingdom of Axum becomes a regional trading power. 4th century - Christianity becomes state religion. 1530-31 - Muslim leader Ahmad Gran conquers much of Ethiopia. 1818-68 - Lij ...

Though other African states have experienced such violence as a result of tension between Christian and Muslim communal groups, Mr. Nathan believes the alleged killings in Axum are the result not ...

a crossroads of early civilizations and one of the first states to accept Christianity as state religion, in the early fourth century, before even the Roman Empire. Its capital, Axum, is reputed ...