Medieval Africa

A Prisoner Built a New Alphabet for Ethiopia

Locked in a dungeon, one man decided to invent a writing system for his people—and pulled it off.

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Medieval AfricaEthiopiaWriting SystemsZagwe DynastyLinguisticsCaptivityChristianityForgotten Figures

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