Revision as of 22:46, 27 November 2024 edit Ahmed al joami (talk \| contribs) 16 edits No edit summary Tags: Reverted Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit ← Previous edit		Revision as of 22:47, 27 November 2024 edit undo Ahmed al joami (talk \| contribs) 16 edits No edit summary Tags: Reverted Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit Next edit →
Line 59: {{further\|History of Ethiopia\|History of Eritrea\|History of Somalia\|History of Djibouti\|Ethiopian historiography}} The area comprising [[Somalia]], [[Djibouti]], the [[Red Sea]] coast of [[Eritrea~~]] and [[Sudan~~]] is considered the most likely location of the land known to the ancient [[Egyptians]] as ''[[Land of Punt\|Punt]]'' (or "Ta Netjeru", meaning god's land), whose first mention dates to the 25th century BCE.<ref>Simson Najovits, ''Egypt, trunk of the tree, Volume 2'', (Algora Publishing: 2004), p.258.</ref> [[Dʿmt]] was a kingdom located in Eritrea and northern [[Ethiopia]], which existed during the 8th and 7th centuries BCE. With its capital probably at [[Yeha]], the kingdom developed [[irrigation]] schemes, used [[plow]]s, grew [[millet]], and made [[iron]] tools and weapons. After the fall of Dʿmt in the 5th century BCE, the plateau came to be dominated by smaller successor kingdoms, until the rise of one of these kingdoms during the 1st century, the [[Kingdom of Aksum\|Aksumite Kingdom]], which was able to reunite the area.<ref>Pankhurst, Richard K.P. ''Addis Tribune'', "[https://web.archive.org/web/20060109162335/http://www.addistribune.com/Archives/2003/01/17-01-03/Let.htm Let's Look Across the Red Sea I]", 17 January 2003 (archive.org mirror copy)</ref>

Horn of Africa: Difference between revisions