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Aksum and Adulis — the Red Sea trade state Mediterranean histories ignored

Mediterranean classical scholarship has, for two centuries, treated the eastern Roman frontier as ending at the Sinai and resuming at India. Between those points, the maps tend to …

2 min read · Horn of Africa, Red Sea · 21 views