Web Directory

» Adi Ainawalid
   Brief description of an ethnoarchaeological research project in the Ethiopian Highlands. Features map and photographs of fieldwork.
   http://www2.sfu.ca/archaeology-old/dept/fac_bio/dandrea/adi.htm

» Aksum
   UNESCO World Heritage site. Includes photographs, maps and a description of the ancient city.
   http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/15

» Axum and the Ark of the Covenant
   Provides a history of the city, information on the Ark and its final resting place, what can be seen and when to visit.
   http://www.pilotguides.com/destination_guide/africa/ethiopia/axum.php

» Combating the Destruction of Ethiopia's Archaeological Heritage: Continued
   The Shire District Archaeological Survey Project returned to the Indasellassie region, north-western administrative zone of Tigray, northern Ethiopia in December 2003. Antiquity Vol 78 No 302 December 2004.
   http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/phillips/index.html

» Foundations of Aksumite Civilization and Its Christian Legacy (1st–7th century A.D.)
   Images, maps, and text describing Aksum.
   http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/aksu_1/hd_aksu_1.htm

» Harar Jugol, the Fortified Historic Town
   UNESCO World Heritage site. Includes photographs, maps, a description of the site and a justification for inscription.
   http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1189

» Lucy Fossil Cleared for U.S. Tour
   MSNBC article reports that Ethiopia will send 2-million-year-old 'Lucy’ to the Houston Museum of Natural Science in 2007.
   http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15401398/

» Obelisk Returned to Ethiopia After 68 Years
   From the Guardian, the first piece of a huge 1,700-year-old granite obelisk was returned home from Italy to Ethiopia yesterday, 68 years after it was looted by the troops of the fascist Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
   http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/apr/20/italy.ethiopia

» Older than Egypt is Ethiopia
   From Al-Ahram, Ethiopia, the very cradle of mankind, the material evidence of its ancient civilisation alone attests to its former glory.
   http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/652/heritage.htm

» Rock-Hewn Churches, Lalibela
   UNESCO World Heritage site. Includes photographs, maps and a description of the site.
   http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/18

» The Axum Obelisk
   Italy promised in writing - in the 1947 Peace Treaty - to return the obelisk to Axum and is closer than ever to doing so. Past technical difficulties have been overcome.
   http://www.ethioembassy.org.uk/fact%20file/a-z/Looted%20Treasure/The%20Axum%20Obelisk.htm

» The Monumental Stelae of Aksum (3rd–4th Century)
   Article on the ancient city's most renowned surviving monuments, a group of memorial obelisks in a great variety of form and scale.
   http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/aksu_2/hd_aksu_2.htm

» The Unfinished History of the Aksum Obelisk Return Struggle
   Dr. Richard Pankhurst provides the story of the Aksum Obelisk looted by Fascist Italy in 1937, and not returned in accordance with the Italian Peace Treaty of 1947 and the bilateral Ethio-Italian Obelisk agreement of 1997.
   http://www.ethiopiaonline.net/obelisk/tribune/13-06-97.html