South Arabian kingdom that united Yemen after absorbing the Sabaean realm, adopted Judaism under several rulers, and fell to an Aksumite Ethiopian invasion backed by the Byzantine Empire in 525 CE.
Conquered in 525 CE by the Christian Aksumite (Ethiopian) kingdom under Emperor Kaleb, following the persecution of Christians by the Jewish Himyarite king Dhu Nuwas; the territory subsequently passed to the Sasanian Empire c. 575 CE.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Himyarite Kingdom — the shape you scrub through changes in 110 BC · 250.
Situates the collapse of Himyar and the pre-Islamic Arabian context leading into the Islamic conquests.
Surveys South Arabian kingdoms down to the coming of Islam, covering Himyar's unification of Yemen and its religious history before the Aksumite conquest.