The Ethiopian city of Aksum was inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List in 1980. Its cultural property encompasses the ancient Aksum town, which houses hundreds of stelae (granite monoliths), ...

The Ethiopian city of Aksum was inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List in 1980. Its cultural property encompasses the ancient Aksum town, which houses hundreds of stelae (granite monoliths), ...

Ruins of the ancient, infamous city of Babylon ... and created the Ge'ez script still used in Ethiopia today. As one of the first civilizations to adopt Christianity, Aksum played a crucial ...

For the 10 million Coptic Christians of Ethiopia, one of the spiritual high points of the year is the feast of St. Gabriel the Archangel. Last week 100,000 pilgrims made their way to the shrine of St.