Archaeologists have studied the ruins of the mysterious African city, about which you hardly know
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Excavations of the city Beta-Samati
The History of mankind is full of various events and scientists are still uncertain of the fate of many ancient civilizations. Recently, however, archaeologists have of the mysterious statues located on the so-called Easter island. It turned out that the locals really believed in the supernatural power of the stone people and raises them up in places where cultivated crops. But did you know that in the world there was also a more mysterious civilization, one of which is the African Kingdom of Axum? You hardly heard about it, but the archaeologists managed to unearth the ruins of the capital in the distant 1906. However, to examine the discovery has been recently.
If you believe the scientific periodical , the German archaeologists found the ruins of the capital of the ancient Kingdom of Axum in the early twentieth century. Lost city that was found on the territory of the African country Ethiopia, called Beta-Samati. According to scientists, the Kingdom was founded by representatives of the poorly known African civilization and lasted from 80 to 825 ad. It was probably as powerful as Ancient Rome, but due to the unstable political situation in Africa scientists for a long time failed to carefully examine the ancient Kingdom. However, recently it became known new details.
the Ruins of the ancient Church
Mysterious civilization in Africa
The Study of the ancient city took American scientists headed by archaeologist Michael Harrower. It was already known that the Kingdom of Axum was the first among African countries South of the Sahara desert, which began to mint its own coins, and converted to Christianity. But they managed to find convincing proof for these statements — in the city Beta-Samati was excavated the remains of the ancient Church. It is believed that it was built some time later, when Axum adopted Christianity.
Artifacts found inside religious buildings.
Previously, archaeologists have been able to find the religious building of IV century, but inside they rarely were . And in this case archaeologists are very lucky because they managed to find a well preserved pendant, coins, statuettes and vessels for the transport of wine. This society is not so well known about the history of Ancient Rome, but the Kingdom of Axum was indeed very powerful. It is known that she was a trading partner of the Roman Empire and other States.
coins of the reign of the Kingdom of Axum
Found inside the Church Golden ring with a precious stone carnelian was probably made in Ancient Rome. This, at least according to the traces of the Roman techniques of manufacturing jewelry. However, to the manufacture of jewelry has also made efforts in the wizard of Axum, because the stone is made engraving of a bull and vines.
Ring with an engraving of a bull and vines.
According to Michael Harrower, the discovery of such valuable things inside a religious building said that its owners had access to luxury and were close to trade. The coins gave archaeologists to understand about at what time a Church was built — it happened in the IV century, during the reign of the king named . The oldest coin was bronze and decorated with Arabic characters in the form of a Crescent.
Also among the artifacts was found a pendant with the inscription "venerable". It is believed that it belonged to a priest
The Discovery of Arab artifacts prompted the historians to hypothesize that next to the Kingdom of Axum after some time began to emerge of the Islamic Kingdom. Perhaps the reason for the death of a mysterious civilization became possible war with other Nations, but to verify this, researchers have to find even more artifacts and ancient documents.
The Researchers hope that their future work will attract the attention of tourists. They agree that at the moment of the ancient Kingdom of Axum knows very few people. However, in their opinion, people lose a lot — in Ethiopia there are many interesting places, surrounded by mysterious stories and feature beautiful landscapes.
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