By Maaza Mengiste Seven-year-old Prince Alemayehu was captured – along with many national treasures – in 1868. His remains are held in Windsor Castle but pleas for their return have been rebuffed Prince Alemayehu ‘This photograph of Prince Alemayehu was taken during the 1868 Napier expedition, a British military incursion into Maqdala, Ethiopia, to rescue
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By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Jaw and teeth fossils found on the silty clay surface of Ethiopia’s Afar region represent a previously unknown member of humankind’s family tree that lived 3.3 to 3.5 million years ago alongside the famous human ancestor “Lucy,” scientists say. The fossils shed new light on a key period in
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By Evan Andrews Johanson poses with Lucy’s skull at an Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, museum on May 7, 2013. (Credit: Jenny Vaughan/AFP/Getty Images) While hunting for fossils in Ethiopia’s Afar Triangle on November 24, 1974, paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson and graduate student Tom Gray stumbled upon the partial remains of a previously unknown species of ape-like hominid.
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Travel Pulse By DAVID COGSWELL PHOTO: The Churches of Lalibela were carved out of solid rock. (Photo by David Cogswell) Ethiopia is emerging from the shadowy sidelines of the world community and joining the global travel industry, bringing its attractions to market. The richness of the country’s historical sites will surprise most people who have never visited
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05 April 2014 By Prof. Getachew Haile This short article addresses the issue of how Ethiopia’s social and political problems are sometimes baseless, or based on minor misunderstandings. The Amharic section of the Voice of America (VOA) included a three-part…
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