ADULIS PORT 

Chapter 60: ADULIS PORT 

Adulis port -July 1154 AD

Situated on the Red Sea coast of Africa, in the Gulf of Zula stood Adulis a prosperous port city of the Aksum Empire in Ethiopia. Its influence extended all the way to southern Arabia.

Being the gateway to the Kingdom of Aksum. Adulis received a steady supply of merchant ships and traders from parts of southern  Arabia and all of  Europe. Textile, glassware, paper, steel, iron implements, clothing, bottled beers, and wines came from Europe and Arabia, while rhinoceros horns, ivory, frankincense, myrrh incense, various spices, slaves, and gold found their way out of the Kingdom to Europe and Arabia. Sometimes, Arab traders brought underage females as slaves to be sold in brothels or noble homes as servants, mostly it was the former.