The Elephants of Aksum: In Search of the Bush Elephant in Late Antiquity

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A lot of people don't realise, the original name for Hirgigo is actually "Dokhono", a corrupted pronouciation by Tigre speakers for a Saho word "Dakano" meaning an elephant. Which may imply its importance in elephant trade.

this persisted up to the aksumite period as noted by arab sources, most notably the qurʾān, tarīkh al-ṭabarī, and an arabian petroglyph, detailing the conquest of the arabian peninsula, but also by byzantine travellers nonnosus and cosmas indicopleustes. …

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