Day Trip in Axum

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1. The Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion is an Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church in Ethiopia. It is claimed to contain the Ark of the Covenant. It is located in the town of Axum, Tigray.

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2. The ruins of the ancient city of Aksum are found close to Ethiopia's northern border. They mark the location of the heart of ancient Ethiopia, when the Kingdom of Aksum was the most powerful state between the Eastern Roman Empire and Persia. The massive ruins, dating from between the 1st and the 13th century A.D., include monolithic obelisks, giant stelae, royal tombs and the ruins of ancient castles. Long after its political decline in the 10th century, Ethiopian emperors continued to be crowned in Aksum.

   5 timEntré ingår

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How it compares in Axum

• Its from-price is 75% below the median of the 18 experiences we list in Axum.
• It is shorter than most of them.
• By number of reviews it ranks 9 of 18.
• The operator lists free cancellation on it.

About Axum

Axum is an ancient highland city in northern Ethiopia, once an imperial capital, with towering carved stelae and a church linked by tradition to the Ark.

Axum was the capital of the Aksumite kingdom, a trading power that minted its own coins and reached across the Red Sea in the first centuries AD. Its stelae field is filled with giant granite monuments carved to resemble multi-storey buildings; the tallest one still standing is over twenty metres high, while the largest of all lies fallen in pieces. One obelisk, carried to Rome in the 1930s, was returned in 2005.

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