Sunday, June 23, 2024

 Greetings all,


In the news, an interesting article on Byzantine influence of the coinage of Africa, particularly the Kingdom of Aksum:


This is a current exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. It is fascinating to be reminded that there was a link between the Byzantine Empire and Aksum, both were Christian and Aksum was a Silk Road link to Constantinople.

-Marcus Cassius Julianus
 
 

 

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