UNESCO site in Ethiopia, Fasil Ghebbi. In 16th and 17th centuries,the fortress-city of Fasil Ghebbi was the residence of the Ethiopian emperor Fasilides and his successors. Surrounded by a 900-m-long wall, the city contains palaces, churches, monasteries.

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@nutt this is all secondhand so i might be mistaken about some stuff here, but:

i had a college course mostly about this city with an indigenous professor, basically the story was it nearly got erased from history because white anthropologists literally couldn't comprehend indigenous peoples being civilized, so they couldn't recognize a city when they found it, and the site was nearly destroyed

anyone who thinks written history isn't literally shaped by oppressive cultural narratives is totally wrong tbh, and from what i recall the reason the city fell wasn't even any aspect of indigenous culture, but disease spread by colonists and potentially some flooding