Season 2 Episode 19 - Gudit, The Woman Who Destroyed An Empire
Gudit, the princess of a cadet branch of the Aksumite Royal family, was betrayed, tortured, and exiled from the city of Aksum. In exile, she plots a scheme to take her revenge. At Gudit's hands, the A...
19 Jul 202128min
Season 2 Episode 18 - The Fall of the Aksumite Empire part 1: Anbasa Wedem, Wise Regent or Cruel Usurper?
After decades of restoring the Aksumite Empire to glory, Nigusa Nagast Degna Djan is dead, and his system will not last. However, what happened to his sons is mired in unreliable histories and later p...
5 Jul 202119min
Season 2 Episode 17 - Degna Djan: The Last Great King of Aksum
Aksum's seemingly unending civilizational decline is finally reversed. The new Negus, Degna Djan, formulates a plan to reclaim the power of the autocratic kings of old and weaken the power of the chur...
21 Jun 202123min
Season 2 Episode 16 - The War for the Dahlak Islands and the Aksumite Dark Age
Throughout the 8th until the 10th centuries, Aksumite society changed immensely. Once a powerful, centralized empire, Aksum increasingly evolved into a decentralized, feudal state. Where once the Negu...
7 Jun 202121min
