The new analysis suggests the rings were made in the African kingdom of Aksum of ivory from the tusks of African elephants, and were traded across post-Roman Europe to England.Image credit: Hemer et al/Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports; (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
It’s called trade....cool
Trade routes extended even further than that. The Roman Empire had quite a reach, and what they did not come in contact with, the Phoenicians and later the Arabian sailors penetrated much of Africa beyond the Sahara and the equator.
Trade routes would have survived the fall of the western Roman Empire, as Norsemen reached into Spain and even parts of northern Africa, and when they got over the first fever of piracy, they too settled into relatively peaceful trading.
some kind of crown for your hair
Is that surprising? They probably got sold and transported several times from central Africa to England.
