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Mifsas Bahri is an archaeological site on the southern border of the 
This highland site contains the ruin of a substantial building constructed of bright red dressed ashlar which may date early as the 6th or 7th century. Lying 200 m west of the shore of Lake Hashinge, the site came to the attention of antiquities authorities in 1997 as a result of alleged exploitation of its building stone on the part of the local population. In 2013 a group led by Paul A. Yule from Mekelle University and
*M. Gaudiello–C. Hilbrig–S. Partheil–P. A. Yule
Mifsas Baḥri, Fourth Preliminary Internal Field Report, 2016 Season
* Fessehe Berhe–M. Gaudiello–M. Hazarika–C. Hilbrig–A. Mortimer–S. Partheil–Tsehay Terefe–S. Yilmaz–Yohannes Gebre Selassie–P. A. Yule
Mifsas Baḥri, Third Preliminary Internal Field Report, 2015 Season
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Tigray
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region of Ethiopia
Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east, Ken ...
. It is located 200m southwest of present-day Lake Ashenge and has an attitude of about 2464 m.
This highland site contains the ruin of a substantial building constructed of bright red dressed ashlar which may date early as the 6th or 7th century. Lying 200 m west of the shore of Lake Hashinge, the site came to the attention of antiquities authorities in 1997 as a result of alleged exploitation of its building stone on the part of the local population. In 2013 a group led by Paul A. Yule from Mekelle University and Heidelberg University
Heidelberg University, officially the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg (; ), is a public research university in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Founded in 1386 on instruction of Pope Urban VI, Heidelberg is Germany's oldest unive ...
began to investigate the site.
Ruins
The building at Mifsas Bahri is a church, to judge from the orientation, masonry excellence and architectural relief sculpture. Preliminarily, the building appears to have undergone three phases including a squatter occupation. Radiocarbon dating suggests that it went out of use in the 15th century.Gaudiello-Yule 2017, 262-5 Table 10.3 Historical reconstruction and local tradition had it that it was destroyed in the 1540s by the mixed forces of Aḥmad ibn Ibrahīm al-Ġazī. This contradicts a few recent unpublished radiocarbon dates, which suggest a building and construction considerably earlier. Excavation confirmed the presence of a monumental stone building some 20 m x 35 m in surface area. According to local sources the church was named Gebre Menfes Kidus.Pottery
Human Remains
See also
* Archaeology of EthiopiaReferences
Further reading
*Tekle Hagos, Archaeological Rescue Investigations in Southern and Eastern Tigray Administrative Zones, Annual of the Federal Authority for Research and Conservation of Cultural Heritage (ARCCH, 2001), sene EC1994, 9–14 (Amharic). *W. Arnold–S. Degenhardt–Fessehe Berhe–B. Gabriel–M. Gaudiello–M. Hazarika–Hiruy Daniel–Yohannes Gebre Selassie–P. Yule, Field Report for Mifsas Baḥri, Second Preliminary Internal Report, 2014. *M. Gaudiello‒P. Yule (eds.), Mifsas Baḥri, a Late Aksumite Frontier Community in the Mountains of Tigray, Survey, Excavation and Analysis 2013‒6, Oxford, BAR International Series S2839, 2017,External links
*M. Gaudiello–C. Hilbrig–S. Partheil–P. A. Yule
Mifsas Baḥri, Fourth Preliminary Internal Field Report, 2016 Season
* Fessehe Berhe–M. Gaudiello–M. Hazarika–C. Hilbrig–A. Mortimer–S. Partheil–Tsehay Terefe–S. Yilmaz–Yohannes Gebre Selassie–P. A. Yule
Mifsas Baḥri, Third Preliminary Internal Field Report, 2015 Season
{{Coord, 12, 34, 37, N, 39, 28, 49, E, display=title Archaeological sites in Ethiopia Tigray Region