Historical

Basic CharacteristicsThe wall are smooth, with long well-cut blocks, excellent straightness and tightness of joints. Other faces, edges and corners are unemotionally dressed with great precision....

Ethiopia is one of the countries in the world known for its ancient rock churches. Lalibela is a medieval settlement in Northern Ethiopia famous for its 11 beautifully carved rock hewn churches,...

Lake Tana - Churches and Monasteries The Lake Tana area was important in the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in view of its role in maintaining the Christian faith against contemporary...

Harla- "the giants" - Ethiopia's lost civilization Scattered around eastern Ethiopia all the way to Somaliland and the Red Sea are the ruins of towns with large stone buildings. They were a race of...

Harar Jugol, the Fortified Historic Town! The fortified historic town of Harar is located in the eastern part of the country on a plateau with deep gorges surrounded by deserts and savannah. The...

During the time of the Portuguese travels in the Ethiopian region (1520 - 1527 CE), Gondar was but little more than a small village community of peasants and military composts. For in the 1520's it...

Aksum’s foundation is suggested to be as early as 300 BCE. Very little is known of the time period between the mid-first millennium BCE to the beginning of Aksum’s flourish, thought to be around the...

Historical manuscripts indicates that Islam in Ethiopia dates back to the year 615 AD when the first Muslim, among them Prophet Mohammad's wife came to Ethiopia as refugees and settled in Negash, a...