Ezana Stone

The Ezana Stone is a stele from the historic Kingdom of Aksum. The stone monument documents the conversion of King Ezana to Christianity and his conquest of diverse neighboring areas, consisting of Meroe. From AD 330 to 356, King Ezana ruled the historic Kingdom of Aksum targeted inside the Horn of Africa. He fought in opposition to the Nubians, and venerated his victories on stone pills in praise of God. These liturgical epigraphs have been written in diverse ancient languages, along with the Ethiopian Semitic Ge'ez, the South Arabian Sabaean, and Greek. The king's engravings in stone furnished a trilingual monument in different languages, similar to the Rosetta stone.

The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church had its beginnings all through this era. Rufinus's Ecclesiastical History narrates that Saint Frumentius, a slave and instruct for the very young King, converted him to Christianity. Towards the quit of his reign, King Ezana launched a marketing campaign towards the Kushites around 350 which delivered down the Kingdom of Kush. Various stone inscriptions written in Ge'ez had been observed at Meroë, the principal metropolis of the Kushites.