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How Ethiopian scientist unearthed ‘world’s oldest child’
Selam, ‘The world’s oldest child’
(CNN) – It was another December afternoon back in 2000, spent like hundreds of others combing the rocky hills of the Dikika region, when Ethiopian scientist Zeray Alemseged heard one of his assistants nearby calling him.
“He said ‘oh, doctor I see something there,’” recalls Alemseged, who’d been excavating the...
Time for Begena
Ethiopian Orthodox Church Choir members playing the Begena (Photo:thereporterethiopia.com)
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – This time around during the lent season, while traveling in mini-bus taxis, having coffee at a café, or wandering around the churches one can hear the deep-sonorous voice.
Ten strings hanging from a short bar at the top joined by two parallel sticks and a leather-made sound-box...
Heritage Project Announced for Religious Ethiopian Site
The Ethiopian Authority for Research and Conservation of Cultural Heritage (ARCCH) has announced a new heritage project for a region of northern Ethiopia in an attempt to preserve a sacred pilgrimage site.
The project will aim to preserve the structures of 11 monolithic World-Heritage listed churches built in the 12th and 13th centuries by King Lalibela. The region has become an important pilgrimage...
Ethiopians find common ground with coffee
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – Described by many experts as the birthplace of coffee, Ethiopians are hopeful that one of their ancient traditions can help bring the country together even as it becomes more and more divided politically, socially and economically.
Villagers in Ethiopia say the act of drinking coffee “is transformational as each cup changes the inner persona of the one who drinks it.”
It...
Ethiopia trying to restore lost heritage
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - Ethiopia is battling to bring back more than three thousand artifacts scattered around the globe, a substantial part of its historic heritage.
According to Wolde Darsema from the Heritage Authority, thousands of historic items, ranging from the monumental to the miniscule, are to be found in museums or in private hands in France, Israel, Vatican, Germany, Italy, the UK and...
Famous fossil Lucy makes a final stop at Bowers
Lucy at Bowers Museum (Photo: Orange County Register)
Lucy’s ancient skeletal remains, an important scientific find, will return to Ethiopia after April 28.
By Richard Chang / Orange County Register
You may not believe this, but the world’s most famous fossil was named after a Beatles song.
“Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” was playing on a tape recorder in 1974 as scientists...
World’s most famous fossil “Lucy” exhibited in Santa Ana before returning to Ethiopia
After being exhibited at the Bowers Museum, this incredibly rare and fragile hominid fossil will be returned to a specially constructed safe in the Paleoanthropology Laboratories of the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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SANTA ANA, CA.- Ethiopia is the cradle of mankind, the birthplace of coffee, the purported resting place of the Ark of the Covenant—and home to Lucy, the 3.2...
Lucy/Dinknesh to come home in April
Lucy/Dinknesh
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (ENA) – The 3.2 million year old Ethiopian fossil, Lucy/Dinknesh, will return home in April 2013, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism said.
According to a statement issued by the Ministry, Lucy/Dinknesh, will be back home after a five year tour in the USA.
Lucy and other heritages began the tour in the USA as per the agreement signed in 2000 EC between the...
From Ethiopia to Argentina: Day 1 of a 7-year walk to trace man’s global migration
Paul Salopek
NAIROBI, Kenya – A two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter has taken the first steps of an unimaginably long walk — a journey from Ethiopia to Argentina expected to last seven years.
Paul Salopek departed an Ethiopian village Thursday to begin a planned 21,000-mile (34,000-kilometer) walk that will cross some 30 borders and scores of ethnic groups.
Salopek’s quest is to retrace...
Lucy to return home in April after five year tour in USA
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (ENA) - The skeleton of Lucy, a 3.2-million-year-old Ethiopian fossil, will come home in April 2013 after a five year tour in the USA, the Authority for Research and Conservation of Cultural Heritage of Ethiopia said.
The Ethiopian government has sent Lucy and 149 artifacts such as ancient manuscripts and royal artifacts from the dynasty of Ethiopians under the project “Lucy’s...
