Des Sabéens dans la Corne de l’Afrique (Somalie du nord) vers les VIIIe-VIIe siècles av. J.-C. è. chr.

International audience ; The discovery of South Arabian inscriptions on the Somali coast sheds new light on several aspects of the relationship between South Arabia and the Horn of Africa, showing that after at least a century on the Ethiopian Tigray plateau, the Sabeans embarked on a policy of coastal exploration, settling for a time on the northern Somali coast in search of a more diversified supply network of marketable goods. The development of a maritime trade network between southern Arabia and the Horn of Africa thus appears to predate the development of large-scale maritime trade at th... Mehr ...