🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Archaeological wonder
Gona, Ethiopia
Gona is a paleoanthropological research area in Ethiopia's Afar Region. Gona is primarily known for its archaeological sites and discoveries of hominin fossils from the Late Miocene, Early Pliocene…
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Archaeological wonder
Hadar, Ethiopia
Hadar or Hadar Formation (also spelled Qad daqar, Qadaqar; Afar "white [qidi] stream [daqar]") is a paleontological fossil site located in Mille district, Administrative Zone 1 of the Afar Region,…
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Archaeological wonder
Aramis, Ethiopia
Aramis is a village and archaeological site in north-eastern Ethiopia, where remains of Australopithecus and Ardipithecus (Ardipithecus ramidus) have been found.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Archaeological wonder
Bouri Formation
The Bouri Formation is a sequence of sedimentary deposits that is the source of australopithecine and Homo (that is, hominin) fossils, artifacts, and bones of large mammals with cut marks from…
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Archaeological wonder
Dikika
The Dikika is an area of the Afar Region of Ethiopia. A hominin fossil named Selam, a specimen of the Australopithecus afarensis species, was found in this area.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Archaeological wonder
Dungur
Dungur (or Dungur 'Addi Kilte) is a historic site dated to the 7th century CE, located in the city of Axum in modern Ethiopia.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Archaeological wonder
Gendebelo
Gendebelo (also called Gende Belo and Nora) was an ancient Muslim trading city in Ifat (present-day central Ethiopia). Its location was discovered in 2009 by a team of French archaeologists.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Ancient city
Harlaa — Lost Islamic City
Early Islamic to Medieval (600–1500 CE) · Harla / Islamic-Ethiopian (Cushitic-Arabian)
Harlaa (Ganda Biyo) is a medieval Islamic city-state (6th–15th c CE) on the southern Afar escarpment 15 km SE of Dire Dawa, excavated 2017– by Exeter & Ethiopian Authority.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Archaeological wonder
Melka Kunture
paleolithic site in the upper Awash Valley, Ethiopia
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Archaeological wonder
National Palace, Addis Ababa
official residence of the President of Ethiopia
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Archaeological wonder
Gademotta
The Gademotta Formation in the Main Ethiopian Rift Valley is known for its Middle Stone Age archaeological sites. It is located west of Lake Ziway.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Temple complex
Yeha Great Temple – Sabaean Palace & Temple
Sabaean–D‘MT (c. 700 BCE – 300 CE; Great Temple c. 700 BCE) · Sabaean–Ethiopian (D‘MT kingdom, South Arabian influence)
Best-preserved pre-Axumite monument, Yeha's Great Temple (18.5×15 m, 14 m high) in ashlar with Sabaean inscription and Ethiopian–South Arabian altar, beside Grat Beal Gebri palace...