Ashley Bryan presents Carol of the Brown King: Nativity Poems by Langston Hughes. Even in our Euro-centric times we find one Ethiopian amongst the kings. Abuna Yesehaq says:
William Leo Hansbury & E. Harper Johnson concerning the wise men identified them as Caspar, king of Ethiopia, Melchior, king of Nubia, and Balthazar, king of Saba... However, Holzer, who believes the name Bazan gradually became Balthazar (Balthasar), seems closer to the truth. Aleqa Taye, an Ethiopian historian, writes, “King Bazan ruled Ethiopia for 17 years, eight years before and nine years after Christ.”
Prof. August Dillman, a philologist, in his book Royal Ethiopia lists Ethiopian rulers from the time of the queen of Sheba to the last period of King Bazan. He also states that during the eight years of the reign of Bazan, Christ was born.
The archaeologist Littmann discovered the tomb and relics of King Bazan and his family in Axum in 1904.
