Abstract
The excavations carried out in the city of Adulis, in present day Eritrea, represent an important magnifying glass on the dynamics of formation and development of Early Christianity in the late antique Horn of Africa. The city, known also from written sources, was the major port of the Aksumite Empire between at least the 1st and the 7th century AD, and went through massive changes during Late Antiquity. In the 5th and 6th centuries, in fact, monumental churches were built within the urban frame of the town, imposing significant cultural and topographical evolutions. The material diffusion of Christianity spread also throughout the whole Empire, in towns such as Aksum, Matara and Qohaito: this paper will then focus on this phenomenon, starting with the new results from the recent archaeological excavations in Adulis, that will be compared to the other material traces of Christianity within the Aksumite Kingdom, North Africa and the Arabian peninsula.
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