Foundations of an African Civilisation: Aksum and the northern

Foundations of an African Civilisation: Aksum and the northern Horn, 1000 BC - AD 1300 (Eastern Africa Series, 19)

This well-illustrated book provides an up-to-date survey of a key period in the history of northern Ethiopia and south-central Eritrea. It is accessible to the general reader, but its comprehensive references and guidance to controversies and research needs will render it invaluable to specialists and students. It considers how the region's literate communities arose and flourished during the last millennium BC, giving rise to the Aksumite civilisation whose achievements and intercontinental significance are increasingly recognised, and which formed an integral but often neglected component of the Christian world in Late Antiquity. Aksum is now seen as the ancestor of the region's medieval Christian kingdom whose churches and associated art continue to attract many visitors to Ethiopia.BR> David W. Phillipson is Emeritus Professor of African Archaeology and former Director of the University Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, Cambridge. In 2014 he was made an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences. Published in association with the British Institute in Eastern Africa. Ethiopia: Addis Ababa University Press
Country USA
Brand James Currey
Manufacturer James Currey
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 52 black & white illustrations, 35 black
ReleaseDate 2014-04-17
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781847010889

Country	USA
Brand	James Currey
Manufacturer	James Currey
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	52 black & white illustrations, 35 black
ReleaseDate	2014-04-17
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781847010889

Foundations of an African Civilisation: Aksum and the northern Horn, 1000 BC - AD 1300 (Eastern Africa Series, 19)