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Recent discoveries, in and around the area of Sembel, near the capital Asmara, show evidence of a society that predated Aksum.

These permanent villages and towns predate those of southern Eritrea and northern Ethiopia suggesting, according to Peter Schmidt, "... it is they, not sites in Arabia that were the vital precursors to urban developments ... likewise students of evolution and distribution of languages now believe that Semitic and Cushitic languages are of African origin.

" By Daniel haile Kurkahh.