Excavations conducted in the Sudan during the past three years by Professor George A. Reisner '89 of the University, who is in charge of the Egyptian expedition working under the joint auspices of the ...

February 12, 2008 — Ethiopia is one of the multi-ethnic state in which most of its people speak the language of “Afro-Asiatic family such as Semitic, Cushitic. Oromitic and Nilo-Saharan.” It is one of ...

An Emperor murdered. Famine used as a weapon. Tanks storming a dictator's palace. And today, a civil war that threatens to tear the country of 109 million people apart. For the past half century, the ...

Journal of Ethiopian Studies, Vol. 39, No. 1/2 (June-December 2006), pp. 35-54 (20 pages) ...

Mar 14, 2006 — Some key dates in the long and turbulent history shared by Ethiopia and Eritrea. Pre-1885: What is now Eritrea was ruled by the various local or international powers that successively ...

THE STAIRS rise elegantly, twisting towards the heavens. At the top is the small room where Emperor Menelik II prayed for God’s blessing as he dramatically enlarged Ethiopia’s territory in the last ...

ADDIS ABABA, July 3 (Reuters) - Tsegaye Tadesse, a former Reuters correspondent in Ethiopia who had a front row seat to history and a knack for being in the right place at the right time, has died at ...

Very few countries in the world can date their diplomatic ties back to the days of the First Temple in Jerusalem. Since the time of King Solomon, Ethiopia, and Israel have enjoyed a relationship that ...

THE RETURN: The Shield of Magdala, was looted by British forces during the 1868 Expedition to Abyssinia (Ethiopia). Pic Credit: Alula Pankhurst A STOLEN ancient Ethiopian shield has finally retuned ...