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The Art Newspaper: Research uncovers lost African school of painting.

“Theoretically, the images could have been painted by a Middle Eastern artist who had travelled 3,000km south, but Mercier argues that it is much more likely that they are the work of an Aksumite artist, copying earlier (lost) images made in the Middle East or Aksum.” One gets the idea that history still has a hard time realizing intellectual/artistic activities occured south of Alexandria.

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