The question of Aksumite trade with Nubia -- The third century CE : Monumentum Adulitanum II (RIE 277) -- The fourth century CE : Aksum in Nubia -- After Kush : Aksum and Nubia in the sixth century CE
Summary
Aksum and Nubia assembles and analyzes the textual and archaeological evidence of interaction between Nubia and the Ethiopian kingdom of Aksum, focusing primarily on the fourth century CE. Although ancient Nubia and Ethiopia have been the subject of a growing number of studies in recent years, little attention has been given to contact between these two regions. Hatke argues that ancient Northeast Africa cannot be treated as a unified area politically, economically, or culturally. Rather, Nubia and Ethiopia developed within very different regional spheres of interaction, as a result of which t