The festival’s curious blend of saintliness and savagery, paganism and piety, is typical of the ancient, isolated Ethiopian Church ... as the state religion, owns more than one-eighth of ...

The ruins of the ancient city of Aksum are found close to Ethiopia's northern border. They mark the location of the heart of ancient Ethiopia, when the Kingdom of Aksum was the most powerful state ...

Ethiopia is pushing for the return of sacred artifacts taken by British forces during the 1868 Battle of Magdala.

Hiob Ludolf's publications, including a dictionary of the classical ancient Ethiopian language, the Lexicon Aethiopico-Latinum, the first dictionary of Amharic, the Lexicon Amharico-Latinum, and the ...