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Of Obelisks and Empire
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| Archaeology, US - Apr 20, 2009 |
Royal monuments and ancient accounts recall the lost glory of an African kingdom...
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An exhibition - photographs and a video installation - at UNESCO will celebrate the reinstallation of the Aksum obelisk....
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Lucy, found in Ethiopia in 1974, is the best-preserved example of Australopithecus, a species of pre-human...
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Addis Ababa's market district
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| Financial Times - London, UK - Jan 17, 2009 |
The National Museum of Ethiopia houses the remains of our 3.2m-year-old ancestor, the hominid skeleton known as Lucy as well as a collection of modern...
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See the world's most famous fossil, Lucy, on her first trip out of her homeland since her 1974 discovery...
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At this battle, Emperor Menelik II inflicted the biggest defeat suffered by a colonial army in Africa on the Italian invaders, saving Ethiopia from the...
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Restoring Ethiopia's great obelisk
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| BBC News, Axum, Ethiopia - Jul 21, 2008 |
The slender stone columns which mark the tombs of ancient kings and nobles still stand in a green field at the edge of the modern town of Axum....
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Maybe Indiana Jones should have looked in Ethiopia
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| Dallas Baptist Standard - Dallas,TX,USA - Jul 18, 2008 |
AXUM, Ethiopia (RNS)-The fabled Ark of the Covenant has become not only an icon of modern culture, thanks mainly to Indiana Jones, but also the most revered religious relic of all time....
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Tourists are increasingly discovering, perhaps uniquely in sub-Saharan Africa, a culture...
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AXUM, Ethiopia – “And they shall make an ark of acacia wood; two and a half cubits shall be its length, a cubit and a half its width, and a cubit and a half its height.” ...
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