Qohaito

Qohaito
Clay Gilliland from Chandler, U.S.A. · CC BY-SA 2.0

Qohaito (also known as Koloe) was a major ancient city in Eritrea's Debub region. Located over 2,500 meters above sea level on a high plateau at the edge of the Great Rift Valley, it sat approximately halfway between the Aksumite capital and its port of Adulis. As a pre-Aksumite settlement that flourished during the Aksumite period, Qohaito remains unexcavated as of 2011, though rock art suggests habitation since the fifth millennium BC. [1]

TypeCity/town/settlement
Period1 - 500 AD
CountryEritrea
Coordinates14.8787° N, 39.4272° E

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