Menelik I was the first Emperor of Ethiopia's Solomonic dynasty. According to the Kebra Nagast, a 14th-century national epic, in the 10th century BC he is said to have inaugurated the Solomonic dynast
Detail from a larger painting in the church at Axum
Emperor Menelik I Bringing the Zion Tabot [ Ark of the covenant ] to Axum.
The Kebra Nagast, or The Glory of the Kings, is a 14th-century national epic of Ethiopia, written in Geʽez by Nebure Id Yeshaq of Aksum. In its existing form, the text is at least 700 years old and pu
Illustration to the Kebra Nagast, between 1965 and 1975