Carved in stone: the extraordinary 12th Century ... which is 8 April in the Orthodox calendar. Frank Gardner An Ethiopian nun at the Church of St Mary of Zion in Axum. The red carpet has been ...

BBC Ethiopia correspondent Emmanuel Igunza says there was a local myth that the area was occupied by giants because the settlement buildings and walls were constructed with large stone blocks that ...

Reforestation efforts in Ethiopia have planted monocultures ... Another part of the project involves encouraging church communities to build protective stone walls around their woods to save ...

A stone pendant (top ... a Christian born in Lebanon who became the head of the Ethiopian church and its first bishop. Coins issued by Ezana during his lifetime seem to support this claim.

In his stone house perched on a hill in northern Ethiopia, Amanuel Hiluf puts on his protective suit, carefully adjusting the hood and gloves.

The Ethiopian Orthodox Church dates the top-down Christianization of Aksum circa ... The tomb is not surmounted by a stela, but by a squat stone structure which, like the highly decorated stelae, ...

Missionaries from Alexandria spread the faith in Ethiopia in the 4th century. The native language (Ge'ez) was used instead of Greek in the liturgy. The church in Ethiopia also fell into heresy ...

Ethiopia is seeking to raise 30 billion birr ($255 million) selling shares in a state-run wireless company, making it the nation’s first initial public offering, and paving the way to start a ...

Lucy’s discovery transformed our understanding of human origins. Don Johanson, who unearthed the Australopithecus afarensis ...

Much like the stone inscriptions of the past ... both within the country and among its global diaspora. The Ethiopian Orthodox Church, for instance, remains a dynamic force in art, with modern ...