Early Ethio-Sabaean kingdom of the northern highlands, precursor to Aksum.
The Kingdom of Dʿmt (c. 900–400 BCE) declined and dissolved c. 400 BCE under circumstances that remain unclear; it is generally believed to have fragmented into smaller successor states or chiefdoms, eventually giving way to the conditions from which the Kingdom of Aksum emerged several centuries later.
Broad survey covering the early northern Horn and pre-Aksumite states.
Sets the early Ethio-Sabaean Horn within a continent-wide history (broad context).
Authoritative study of the northern Horn of Africa including Dʿmt, the precursor to Aksum; Phillipson is the leading scholar on this region