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An Archeological Triangle

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Eritrea and Northern Ethiopia. Click on any main road
south of Asmara to go to that place in the narrative
(Adapted from an Imperial Ethiopian Highway Authority Map)

The narrations in this group of chapters take you down roads that pass through a vast archeological treasure chest. Hundreds of sites are scattered throughout this area. In fact, the French archeologist Francis Anfre, who worked in Ethiopia for years, once said that one cannot walk through any field between Keren and Axum, throughout Eritrea's Hamasien and Akele Guzai regions without finding some Axumite artifact. History lines these roads....

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