Axum Stories


Seeing a bit of history in Tigrai (with a large dose of hassle)

The town of Axum was apparently once the center of a powerful empire but today it's a pretty small town with a lot of history in the form of ruins. Scattered around the town are tombs, palaces (most of which are just a pile of rocks now), and stelae (huge stones that the people used to erect like tombstones for their rulers). Apparently the largest of...