Temple of the Moon in Yeha, Tigray Region, northern Ethiopia. Image: A. Davey, Flickr
Location of Diamat and surrounding kingdoms
Tigray landscape on the road from Adwa to Yeha. Image: A Davey, Flickr
Posted on 06/18/2011 1:46:18 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
An ancient settlement has been discovered in the Ethiopian highlands using non invasive geophysical surveys... a suspected settlement in the north-western Ethiopian highland region of Tigray, home to the town of Yeha which was believed to be a major centre of the Diamat Kingdom established around 700 BCE... In 2008, Ethiopian archaeologists made the astonishing discovery of a perfectly preserved sacrificial altar in neighbouring Meqaber Ga'ewa, a previously unknown location near the city of Wuqro. The altar bore a remarkable royal inscription in Old South Arabian bearing the name Yeha. In 2008, Ethiopian archaeologists made the astonishing discovery of a perfectly preserved sacrificial altar in neighbouring Meqaber Ga'ewa. According to Kebede Amare, head of the Tigray Cultural Department, this is the southernmost find believed to belong to the Diamat Kingdom. Located in present day Eritrea and northern Ethiopia, the civilization had sophisticated irrigation plans, made use of ploughs, grew millet and made iron tools and weapons... Of particular importance to researchers, is whether the kingdom was comprised of indigenous peoples or a mix of indigenous peoples with the ancient Sabaeans who came to dominate the Red Sea... the royal inscription is the first such recorded evidence of the ancient town of Yeha... Since 2008, DAI archaeologists have excavated not only a temple dedicated to the Sabaean moon god Almaqah in Meqaber Ga'ewa, they have discovered additional sites of a previously unknown settlement from this important historical period. In Ziban Adi, one of the most promising sites uncovered, they excavated the foundation walls of another sanctuary... Thus far, only a few archaeological sites are known.
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Temple of the Moon in Yeha, Tigray Region, northern Ethiopia. Image: A. Davey, Flickr
Location of Diamat and surrounding kingdoms
Tigray landscape on the road from Adwa to Yeha. Image: A Davey, Flickr
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There was a movie, with the crosses in the castle walls - darned if I can remember it.
Most castle wall built prior to the general use of firearms had portrals in the shape of crosses. The cross shape allowed the use of bows and crossbows at different angles ie: up or down, left or right. In military speak: “fields of fire”. Still used to this day with adaptations to modern weapons. A days drive in England will show you the whole array to include WWII “pillboxes” along some rural highways.
Looks to me as if the “cross” could just be the result of one horizontal stone breaking and falling out. Look sideways from the cross to the place with 2 holes near the left edge of the picture.
I got it, regarding the “fields of fire” thing. Want to go to Germany and see some examples? My kids started calling a naked hill, “Defective.” The hill must be defective - nobody built a castle on it.
Hellbender, I don’t think any stones fell out of that wall. I see places where wood used to be, stones set out for support of levers, and the like. But no missing stones.
Anyway, the point is, I was trying to remember the name of a specific movie, set in Transylvania or the like, that featured a castle full of crosses.
Not Dracula, or Vladamir Dracul, or any of those.
It seems the Ethiopians were more advanced in 700 B.C. than they are today.
Billions of dollars sent to that rat hole area and what can be shown for it? Rich dictator after rich dictator and a whole lot of poor, ignorant, people picking up sticks to to lite to cook the locusts that had fallen from the sky.
They don’t need money aid, they need God’s Word and a Constitution.
Funny their African brother Obama is trying to destroy both in this country. He wants to do for USA what has been done to Africa for millenia.
The way liberals/socialists/progressives/Marxists think, if all can’t be rich, by gosh, we will make them all poor.
Interesting to see that "Sheba" is not in Ethiopia, and to read that the Sabaens could have been the Shebans, in which case the celebrated Biblical Queen of Sheba would have been a Yemenite, not an Ethiopian.
“...home to the town of Yeha...”
Yeha? I’ve heard of that place, Yeeehawwww!
Yeah, I noted that - the Queen of Sheba in Yeman.
Odd.
But the map also has Persia in Egypt.
BS.
The guy what drewed thet there map needs a jogrufee lessin.
At the height of its power, the Persian Empire did control Egypt.
Haette ich schon mal gewuesst - so, why is the entire map not marked Persia?
Add me to the GGG ping list, please.
You do realize that the Ethiopia is actually believed to have practiced Judaism from the time of Solomon and Christianity since the time of the Apostles? They have one of the longest and proudest Christian traditions of the entire church.
From Wikipedia:
“Although Christianity existed far before the rule of King Ezana the Great of the Kingdom of Axum, the religion took a strong foothold when it was declared a state religion in 330 AD. Pinpointing a date as to when Christianity emerged in Ethiopia will always probably be a mystery.
The earliest and best known reference to the introduction of Christianity was when the evangelist Philip converted an Ethiopian traveler in the 1st Century AD from the Acts of the Apostles.[2] Although the bible refers to them as Ethiopians, scholars have argued that Ethiopia was a common term used for encompassing the area South-Southeast of Egypt. According to church historian Nicephorus, the apostle St. Matthias preached the Christian Gospel to modern-day Ethiopia (then called Colchis) after having preached in Judea.[3]
Other traditions have the convert as a Jew who was a steward in the Queen’s court. All accounts do agree on the fact that the traveler was a member of the royal court who succeeded in converting the Queen, which in turn caused a church to be built. Rufinus of Tyre, a noted church historian, also has recorded a personal account as do other church historians such as Socrates and Sozemius.
The Garima Gospels are thought to be the world’s oldest illuminated Christian manuscripts.
The only pre-colonial Christian church of Sub-Saharan Africa, the Ethiopian Orthodox church has a membership of slightly more than 32 million people in Ethiopia, and is thus the largest of all Oriental Orthodox churches. Next in size are the various Protestant congregations, who include 13.7 million Ethiopians. The largest Protestant group is the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus, with about 5 million members. Roman Catholicism has been present in Ethiopia since the 16th century, and numbers 536,827 believers. In total, Christians make up 62.76% of the total population of the country.[1]”
Iron use in 700 BC, that’s pretty impressive, along with the other stuff. They were pretty much up to speed with the other major civilizations existing at the time.
There is no date on the map, and none in the article except where it says that this civilization started in 700 BC. It’s possible the Persians controlled more than the map shows at one time or another, but I don’t think the Persians ever conquered all of what is now modern Egypt, let alone Sudan and Ethiopia. They did get control of the rich and fertile Lower Egypt and delta region in about 525 BC.
The misfortune of Ethiopia most recently has been the Italian Fascists, Marxists, and Muslims. Not to mention starvation after the Marxists took over. I would love to visit the old churches carved in rock and, of course, the fossil fields.
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