Author: David W. Phillipson
publisher name: James Currey
ISBN: 9781847010889
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 civilization whose achievements and intercontinental significance are increasingly recognized, and which formed an integral but often neglected component of the Christian world in Late Antiquity.
