Annually, the Epiphany is celebrated with the Queen of Sheba’s Bath at its centre; Central Stele Park provides the setting for the festival for the Ark of the Covenant. Aksum’s heritage is a reminder ...

Armed with a bamboo ink pen and a steady hand, Ethiopian Orthodox priest Zelalem Mola carefully copies text in the ancient Ge’ez language from a religious book onto a goatskin parchment.

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 great outstanding feature of the history of Ethiopia was that the Ethiopian cultural unit stood as an outpost of Egyptian civilization in Middle Africa," writes Professor Reisner. He shows ...

Ruins of the ancient, infamous city of Babylon await visitors in a far-off corner of central Iraq. The Indus Valley ...

The holy city of Lalibela became a substitute for the holy places of Jerusalem and Bethlehem, and as such has had considerable influence on Ethiopian Christianity. Criterion (iii): The whole of ...