Ethopian and Yemn a Shared History

The people of Ethiopia and southern Arabia have crossed paths from the earliest remembrance and perhaps before then. Accordint to Henze, "Ancient south Arabian peoples may, according to some theories, have originally migrated out of Africa'. (19) These Semitic-speaking people from what is present day Yemen immigrated back to the northern region of the African horn and it was in Aksum that the mixture of Arabian and African culture merged. In the Layers of Time, Henze offers more then a few shared cultural icons and nuances that make it apparent that for many years these people had a shared cultural identity.

The agricultural similarities, a Semitic language, and shared religious and kinships traditions were minor components compared to the sense of some kind of shared history. Both civilizations lay claim to the Queen of Sheba and it is her child with King Solomon, Menelik I, who establish the Aksumite Empire. Henceforth, all kings traced there lineage from David, Solomon, and Queen Sheba. The paths of these two civilizations crossed viscously when the empire extended to the Arabic side of the red sea. The final expanses of the last great Aksumite Kings were able to add to their title, King of Himyar, Saba,