Zera Yacob was an Ethiopian philosopher from the city of Aksum in the 17th century. His 1667 treatise, developed around 1630 and known in the original Ge'ez language as the Hatata (Inquiry), has been compared to René Descartes' Discours de la méthode (1637).
17th-century Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion
Axum, also spelled Aksum, is a town in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia with a population of 66,900 residents. It is the site of the historic capital of the Aksumite Empire.
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Image: Stelae in Main Stelae Field Axum (Aksum) Ethiopia 02 (8702223458)
Image: Maryam Sion in Axum Nebenbau mit der Bundeslade 2010
German "Aksum Expedition", February 1906. From left: Theodor von Lüpke, Dr. Erich Kaschke, Gebre Selassie (Governor of Tigray), Enno Littmann and Daniel Krencker