Foto de Axum, Etiopia, Africa

The fallen Great Stele, symbol of the downfall of Axum

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Once the most powerful city in the region, Axum nowadays is famous mainly for its stelae and is considered the most religious of Ethiopian cities.
Centres of fallen empires have a certain melancholy over them; sometimes, it is hard to imagine them in their heydays. After arriving at Axum, and walking the quiet streets of this town, it is not easy to imagine this was once the centre of power of the region, the capital of the Axumite empire, one of the great empires of the entire continent. The empire included most of what is now Eritrea, its port to the world was Adulis on the Red Sea, and it is still considered as the basis of current Ethiopia. The empire lasted from before Christ to the 7th century, after which it declined. At the time, it was one of the most advanced civilizations when it comes to technology and trade.
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