Adulis
Sign in to saveAdulis (Sabaean: 𐩱 𐩵 𐩡 𐩪, , ) was an ancient city along the Red Sea in the Gulf of Zula, about south of Massawa. Its ruins lie within the modern Eritrean city of Zula. It was the emporium considered part of the D’mt and the Kingdom of Aksum. It was close to Greece and the Byzantine Empire, with its luxury goods and trade routes. Its location can be included in the area known to the ancient Egyptians as the Land of Punt, perhaps coinciding with the locality of Wddt, recorded in the geographical list of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt.
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Place details
- Locality
- ፎሮ Foro فورو
- Region
- ዞባ ሰሜናዊ ቀይሕ ባሕሪ Northern Red Sea شمال البحر الأحمر
- Country
- ኤርትራ Eritrea إرتريا
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Adulis
- Ancient site.native_name
- 𐩱 𐩵 𐩡 𐩪ኣዱሊስ
- Ancient site.image
- Byzantine Basilica (8527948107).jpg
- Ancient site.caption
- A 5th-century Byzantine Christian basilica at Adulis, excavated in 1914
- Ancient site.map_type
- Eritrea#Horn of Africa#Africa
- Ancient site.map_caption
- Location within Eritrea##Location within the Horn of Africa##Location within Africa
- Ancient site.location
- Eritrea
- Ancient site.region
- Northern Red Sea
- Ancient site.length
- 840 m
- Ancient site.width
- 430 m
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Key dates
- Inception
- 1450 BCE
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- archaeological site
- Country
- Eritrea
- Located in
- Zula
- Image
- MapHymiariteKingdom.jpg
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- P2348
- Kingdom of Aksum
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Article
5 sectionsContents
- History
- Archeological excavations
- See also
- Notes
- Further reading
Adulis (Sabaean: 𐩱 𐩵 𐩡 𐩪, , ) was an ancient city along the Red Sea in the Gulf of Zula, about south of Massawa. Its ruins lie within the modern Eritrean city of Zula. It was the emporium considered part of the D’mt and the Kingdom of Aksum. It was close to Greece and the Byzantine Empire, with its luxury goods and trade routes. Its location can be included in the area known to the ancient Egyptians as the Land of Punt, perhaps coinciding with the locality of Wddt, recorded in the geographical list of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt.
==History== Archeological excavations conducted at Adulis unearthed the existence of a late prehistoric settlement beneath the town, dating from the mid-2nd to early 1st millennium BCE. Adulis may correspond to Wddt, a region recorded in the geographical lists of Egypt’s 18th dynasty (ca. 1450 BCE) as part of the Land of Punt.