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Description
Ethiopia's historic route begins with a glance at the tantalising
remains of Yeha - the country's earliest high civilisation.
In a remote part of Tigray region, Yeha lies several hours drive
from the more accessible city of Axum, The journey takes you on rough
tracks through dramatic highland scenery and eventually ends in a
beautiful and serene agricultural hamlet. It is there, close to a much
more recent Christian church, that you may see the towering ruins of
Yeha's Temple of the Moon - built more than 2,500 years ago, in
Sabaean times.
The temple is an imposing rectangular edifice. Though it has long
since lost its roof and upper storeys the ruins stand some twelve
metres in height. As evening falls, the temple's finely dressed and
polished limestone reflects the glow of the setting sun with a warmth
and brilliance that cannot be accidental. The huge, precisely fitted
blocks from which the inward- inclining walls are formed seem to bear
out ancient opinion that Sabaean buildings could be filled with water
without a single drop being lost. Apart from the temple, however - which speaks eloquently of the
works of a high civilisation - little or nothing is known about the
people who built this great edifice. Indeed, their origins are wrapped
in mystery of which, perhaps, the greatest is this: if a culture had
evolved to the level of sophistication required to build monuments of
such quality in the highlands of Tigray by the sixth century BC, then
what were its antecedents? What came before it? And how far back does
Ethiopian civilisation really go? So far the archaeologists have
uncovered no convincing answers to these questions.
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