Marvel at the immense granite stelae in Axum, Ethiopia, towering monoliths crafted by ancient civilizations#axum#ethiopia#megaliths ...

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), ...

The monuments in Aksum remind us of an era in which a strong, ancient civilization ruled in the Horn of Africa, categorized by UNESCO as a significant stage in human history. The stelae, mansions and ...

Matt Stirn For years, European and American historians and archaeologists viewed ancient Kush through ... and the rise of a rival civilization in the east, Aksum, in modern-day Ethiopia.