Recent archaeological investigations in eastern Tigray, Ethiopia, have revealed extensive evidence for medieval Muslim communities. Although the settlement of Muslims near modern Kwiha was previously attested by epigraphic evidence, its exact location remained unknown. Fieldwork, with support ERC project ‘HornEast’, has identified and excavated cemetery at Bilet—the first excavation a Ethiopian...

Kekrops was a diphyes and ‘mixanthropic’ hero, with his upper part in the form of man lower snake. This paper examines positive aspects Kekrops’s hybrid nature, by employing an interdisciplinary approach, taking into account literary, epigraphic, iconographic topographical evidence, as well historical ideological context classical period. Special attention is paid to association snakes ideology...