Axum

[porphyry]

I've been writing about these things ad nauseum, so, now that that project is approaching the goal, here are the grave stelae of the kings of Axum (except the largest one which the Italians recently shipped back--having to cut it in half for some reason[Mussollini didn't when he looted it] which was set up downtown rather than in the cemetery)and then the Church of Our Lady Mary of Palestine where king David deposited the Ark of the Covenant when he abandoned Israel to go live with his mother the Queen of Sheeba (the television documentaries all seem to leave out that detail). The Ark is supposedly still there, but I understand it's a fake and the Smithsonian (which acquired the real one from Egypt in the late 1930s) is suing them over rights to the name.