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Adulis: Rediscovering the "White Water" Name Through Moonlight and Memory
On the coast of Eritrea, near the Gulf of Zula, lie the ruins of Adulis, once a thriving port city and key commercial outpost of the ancient Kingdom of Aksum. From as early as the Pharaonic era, this port connected the African interior to the Red Sea and beyond—moving ivory, incense, gold, and exotic animals north to Egypt, and receiving goods from the Greco-Roman and Indian worlds in return.
Adulis has long fascinated archaeologists and historians, yet one mystery has remained surprisingly unsolved: the origin of its name. For centuries, scholars have speculated that "Adulis" was either a Greek rendering or a term from Geʽez, the classical language of the Aksumites. But none of these explanations quite fit. What has gone largely unnoticed is that the region surrounding Adulis has been home for thousands of years to Saho-speaking communities—and that just a few kilometers inland from the ruins lies a small village still called Ado-Lai.
In the Saho language, Ado-Lai means “white water.” Strikingly, even many local Saho people today regard Adulis as a historic or foreign name—passed down and repeated, but not directly recognized as connected to their own language or nearby village. This inherited disconnection, both among outsiders and locals, meant that the linguistic and ecological roots of the name remained hidden in plain sight.
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