These sacred texts, written in Ge'ez, a language known only to the Kessim (Ethiopian Jewish priests), hold significant cultural and historical importance.

A traveling workshop of TAU's Orit Guardians program discovered two 15th-century Orit books—the oldest found to date in the ...

Ancient human fossils discovered in Ethiopia are much older than previously thought, experts claim, saying they could be as much as 230,000 years old.. The remains – known as Omo I – were ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — An ancient handwritten Book of Psalms taken from the fortress of Ethiopian Emperor Theodros by British troops 135 years ago was returned to the Horn of Africa country Monday.

Ethiopia has always held me in thrall. It is a cradle of prehistoric humankind. It embraced Christianity long before the missionaries arrived. Its people carved subterranean churches out of solid ...

In 2011, Wendy Laura Belcher, an assistant professor of comparative literature and African American studies, spent a year in Ethiopia on a Fulbright fellowship researching ancient manuscripts ...

ETHIOPIA Arid highlands said to hold ancient Ark of the Covenant. By Mark Sissons, Special to The Chronicle Dec 13, 2009. Bet Giyorgis, the most famous and visually perfect of Lalibela's 12th and ...

Genome study reveals prehistoric Ethiopian origins of coffee. By Will Dunham. April 16, 2024 2:25 PM UTC Updated April 16, 2024 ... It was first cultivated by people in Ethiopia and Yemen, ...

DNA from a man who lived in Ethiopia about 4,500 years ago is prompting scientists to rethink the history of human migration in Africa. DNA from 4,500-year-old Ethiopian reveals surprise about ...

As a stranger draws near, priest Mesganaw Tarkgn whips on an embroidered cape and raises an ancient cross in a picture-perfect pose. He is used to the demands of visitors to one of Ethiopia's ...

Divisions in Ethiopia’s ancient church pose new threat to war-weary country. April 12, 2023. 8 min. A worker rests in one of the rock-hewn churches carved a millennia ago in Lalibela, Ethiopia.

Ethiopia has always held me in thrall. It is a cradle of prehistoric humankind. It embraced Christianity long before the missionaries arrived. Its people carved subterranean churches out of solid ...