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Ethiopia

Ethiopia/Features/Issue 83/Issues

Forgotten kingdom: Searching for lost royalty from the days of the Aksumite Empire

In 2015, CWA reported on the discovery by Louise Schofield of the remarkable grave of a young woman she nicknamed ‘Sleeping Beauty’.…

Ethiopia/Features/Issue 79/Issues

Before Aksum: Excavating Ethiopia’s Earliest Civilisation

In the 1st millennium AD, Ethiopia was home to the great civilisation of Aksum, one of the world’s first Christian kingdoms. But what…

Issue 47/Ethiopia/Travel

Ethiopia: Land of Angels

From the imposing stelae at Axum to the churches at Lalibela carved out of solid rock, Ethiopia has an incredibly rich heritage.…

Issue 46/Ethiopia/Features

Ethiopia: When climate changes

Over the past two summers Timothy Clack and Marcus Brittain have directed the first archaeological teams in the Lower Omo Valley, a…

Issue 44/Ethiopia

Tool use pushed back 1 million years

The butchered bones of cow and goat-like animals from a riverbed in Dikika, in the Afar region of northern Ethiopia, show early…

Issue 32/Ethiopia/Great Discoveries

Lucy

A snapshot of the Australopithecus afarensis, otherwise known as 'Lucy'.…

Issue 18/Celebrating World Heritage/Ethiopia/Features

Lalibela, Ethiopa, Rock-Hewn Churches

One of the original 12 sites to be added to the World Heritage list, Lalibela is one of the most important pilgrimage…

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Issue 7/Ethiopia/Features

Aksum

One of the first civilisations to be converted to Christanity: but what was there before Christanity?…

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Ethiopia/Issue 1

Earliest Man

160,000 year old human skull discovered in Afar…

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