KN 19: How This Book Came to Be Found

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And Demateyos (Domitius), the Archbishop of Rom (i.e., Constantinople, Byzantium), said, “I have found in the Church of [Saint] Sophia among the books and the royal treasures a manuscript [which stated] that the whole kingdom of the world [belonged] to the Emperor of Rom and the Emperor of Ethiopia.”

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E.A. Wallis Budge, The Kebra Nagast (1922). Public domain.

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