- Ezana Stone
The Ezana stone is an artifact from the ancient
Kingdom of Aksum . It is a stone monument which documents the conversion of King Ezana to Christianity and his subjugation of various neighboring peoples, includingMeroe .From 330 to 356 AD King Ezana ruled the ancient Aksumite kingdom that is now known today as
Ethiopia ,Eritrea , andYemen on the northeast corner ofAfrica .Ezana fought against theNubians and recorded his victories on stone written inGe'ez (the ancient Ethiopian language),Sabaean (South Arabian) and Greek praisingGod for his victories. His carvings in stone provided a trilingual monument in different languages, similar to theRosetta stone .The
Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church had its beginnings at this time.Rufinus 's "Ecclesiastical History" narrates that (Saint)Frumentius , a slave and tutor for the very young King, converted him toChristianity . Towards the end of his reign, King Ezana launched a campaign against theCushites around350 AD which brought down theKingdom of Kush (Nubians ); various stone inscriptions written in Ge'ez (using the Ge'ez script) have been found atMeroe the central city of theCushites .ee also
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Rosetta Stone External links
* [http://www.infohub.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6551 Article]
* [http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/data/2001/07/01/html/ft_20010701.fulltext.6.html National Geographic article]
* [http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/harden_ethiopic_literature.htm Harden, J. M., "An introduction to Ethiopic Christian Literature" (1926) ]
* [http://open-encyclopedia.com/Ezana Ezana of Axum]
* [http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/harden_ethiopic_literature.htm Church Fathers chapter II]
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