Axum

Last year, the OHCHR confirmed that Eritrean armed forces massacred scores of civilians, including children as young as 13 in the town of Axum in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.

Two days' journey further on, one comes to the ruins of Axum, the ancient capital of Abyssinia.

It was near Axum that Bruce saw three soldiers cut from a living cow a steak for their midday meal.

In an angle of this platform where the temple stood, is the present small church of Axum.

From Adulis started the main road, which led across the high plateau to the capital Axomis (Axum).

The two young men were taken to the king at Axum, where they were well treated and in time obtained great influence.