Editing Foreign relations of Ethiopia (section)

====South Arabia====

[[File:Bab el Mandeb NAS-AR description.png|thumb|[[NASA]] capture of Arabic description of strait [[Bab el Mandeb]]. It is known for passage for South Arabian migration.]]
Some theorists hypothesized Ancient South Arabian people migrated [[Recent African origin of modern humans|out of Africa]] to the strait [[Bab-el-Mandeb]] when its sea level decreased to current status. When their civilization came to appear from 4th millennium BC, onward [[Mesopotamia]] and the [[Persian Gulf]], adaptation of Semitic language was from end of [[Mediterranean]], though they used Canaanite alphabet developed from Syria or Palestine during second millennium BC. Apparently, these languages similarity compared to Hebrew and Phoenician alphabets, even though lacked scholarly consensus. By 500 BC, it was widely spoken such as the [[Ge'ez language]].{{sfn|Henze|2000|p=19}}

Writing system through [[inscription]] on stone often detailed historical rival kingdoms in the region, most notability the Saba, Qataban, Himyar, [[Hadhramaut]], [[Ma'in]] and others. In 1959, American archeologists collected numerous artifacts and body of inscriptions in the area, belonging to [[primary source]]s. The inscription not only detailed about South Arabia, but also the early [[History of Ethiopia|Ethiopian history]] associated with Kingdom of Aksum and its rulers.{{sfn|Henze|2000|p=20}}