Ethiopian Culture History and Archaeology

Aksum
Aksum was the name of a kingdom and capital city in what is now Ethiopia of the 1st through 6th century AD.

Aramis
Aramis is the name of an archaeological site located in the Middle Awash region of Ethiopia.

Archaeology of Ethiopia and Eritrea
From Matt Curtis at UC Santa Barbara, a clearinghouse for information about Eritrea and Ethiopia.

Bouri (Ethiopia)
The Lower Paleolithic site of Bouri is located within the Bouri formation of the Middle Awash region of Ethiopia.

Center for Human Evolutionary Studies
Rutgers University, archaeology and paleoanthropology in Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Kenya.

Civilizations in Africa: Axum
From Richard Hooker's World Cultures, a discussion of the Axumite civilization.

Gondar, Ethiopia
The city of Gondar, Ethiopia, is located in Ethiopia, 500 kilometers north of Addis Ababa, 35 kilometers from Lake Tana, and in the foothills of the Simien mountains.

Gona (Ethiopia)
At 2.6 million years old, the Lower Paleolithic site called Gona or Kada Gona in Ethiopia is the earliest site yet to contain evidence of chipped stone tool making.

Jacqueline Pirenne [1918-1990]
French archaeologist Jacqueline Pirenne spent much of her career excavating in South Arabia, especially in Yemen and Ethiopia.

KGA10-525
A nearly complete 1.4 million-year-old skull of Australopithecus boisei was found at Konso. An abstract from Archaeology magazine.

Lucy (Hominid at AL 333, Ethiopia)
Lucy is the name of the nearly complete skeleton of the famous hominid (human ancestor) found in 1974 at AL 333, a site in the Hadar archaeological region on the Afar Triangle of Ethiopia.

Maurice Taieb
During the 1970s, Tunisia-born French geologist Maurice Taieb explored the entire Afar region of Ethiopia, seeking paleontological remains; one of the sites he identified was the Hadar site.

Middle Awash
The Middle Awash is a region in Ethiopia where many hominid sites have been found.

Omo Kibish
Omo Kibish is an ancient rock formation in Ethiopia where excavations by Richard Leakey and others have recovered Homo sapiens remains as old as 125,000 years before the present.

Sacred Sites of Ethiopia
From anthropologist/wanderer Martin Gray, photographs and commentary on several sites in Ethiopia, including Axum and the fabled Ark of the Covenant (well, no photographs of that, of course).

The Royal Tombs of Aksum
A photo essay on Aksum, written by and with photographs from the late archaeologist Stuart Munro-Hay who worked at the site in the 1970s.

Yeha
Yeha is a large Bronze Age archaeological site located about 25 km northeast of the modern town of Adwa, in Ethiopia.