Ethiopia has so much to offer visitors: the Historic Route, covering the ancient town of Axum, with its amazing carved obelisks, Christian festivals and relics, including the Ark of the Covenant; Gondar, with its castles and palaces; Lalibela, with its…

Among the rock-hewn churches of Lalibela, Bete Giorgis (the house of Saint George) is found southwest of the village on a rocky ground. The temple is cross-shaped, perhaps the most attractive structure of Lalibela’s rock-hewn churches. When Lalibela had finished constructing the churches, Saint George riding on his white horse revealed himself to Lalibela to tell him…

1. The People: The people of this old realm are a mixture of above 80 ethnic groups speaking above 70 different languages; they don’t seem so though, for they understand each other in almost every aspect of their lives.  To appreciate what diversity and living in peace with all the difference anyone might have, Ethiopia is the best choice. Having three…

That Friday, when the Lord was on the Cross, an angel named Ourael took the blood of Christ in a glittering cup and sprinkled it all over the Earth. All grounds that received a drop of the holy blood were chosen to be sanctified and blessed places to establish churches on them and made them their holy seats. So Ethiopian Orthodox Church history recounts.

The…

Sons were born of the Queen of Sheba and her servant: Menelik from the Queen and Zagwe from the servant of the Queen. Now the children had just passed their teenage and journeyed to see their father – the wise Solomon. He received them with great honour and when they were on their way back home they had the Ark of the Covenant with the crowd that had accompanied…

You must have heard of the obelisk of Axum which has come back to Ethiopia in 2002 after decades of stay in Italy. It was taken by Italians during the Ethio-Italy war in 1927. Its height is 26 meters. The other 23m obelisk is still standing in there witnessing our greatness in the past and foretelling our greatness in the future. There are many of its type in Axum but…

Unlike many of the other countries of the world, Ethiopia owns thousands of years of history. What is astonishing yet is not just having 3000 thousand years of history but a history that is full of incredible legends and mysteries. Beginning with the legend that springs from the Palace of King Solomon, Ethiopian history is one no one has so far been able to measure its…

Hearing the words of a man that travelled around the world Saba and her servant went to see the wise king and his amazing deeds. After the visit from Israel and the wise king of the land – Solomon both conceived a child and gave birth back in Ethiopia.

•       They are back – the Queen and her servant, carrying brother babies in their wombs. Two decades passed since the brothers were born of their mothers. And now, as it should have been, they wanted to know who…

Lesson Fifth

Revision

Menelik the 1^st had brought the Ark of the Covenant and then established the so called Solomonic Dynasty. This great empire had gone well for the coming 1500 years. What happened afterwards?

TODAY’S LESSON

•       Saba ruled for 31 years and died. Her son King Menelik,…

Lesson Sixth

Revision

The Queen of Sheba ruled the great nation. Christianity came to the country and the Nine Saints spread the Gospel throughout the land. The Nine Saints had got great respect and love by the people and the royal family.  

•       According to the old scriptures inherited the land of Yemen, for one…

Lesson First

There is no crystal clear thing as this: that history of every part of the world begins with legends. Some we can find written in books and some came down to our generation by oral. The history of this nation – Ethiopia starts with a legend that we would not have the nerve to say ‘you shall know what we speak is true’.  Later, in the history, however, all we speak we know, are true for we have brought them from nowhere but credible sources.

In the…

Lesson Second

On our first lesson we have had that amazing legend left hanging near to its climax. Well, we are happy to RIVISE it.

RI-VISION

Angabos, a stranger in Axum and the father of Saba appeared in the Land of Axum and destroyed the monstrous snake that troubled the people of Axum for years. And his daughter Saba becomes a…

We don’t have Santa Claus here. We never saw him in the streets carrying big sacks and presenting Christmas gifts for our kids. We never saw the snow falling down on our roofs or on the ground. It doesn’t matter though. We have our own Christmas; a Christmas on which we share big smiles that you wouldn’t see the rest of the year afterward. Let’s just flip through few…

It has been a while since I began wondering why people get addicted to Facebook. More surprisingly, no one, I suppose, seem to be interested on finding the very cause of the addiction. Condemning the addicted ones and preaching the negative impacts of this technology would not help anyone to keep away from it or even use it properly. I can see there is quite a reason…

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6. Lost Ark of the Covenant: You must have seen the movie ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ starring Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones. It must have your sensations arisen.Graham Hancock, Philip Marsden and Richard Pankhurst are few of the prominent writers and travellers of our times. Their researches and…

 Who "invented" music   St. Yared or Mozart? 



Born and raised in Ethiopia, Saint Yared is the foremost composer of Ethiopian Orthodox Church song melodies. Yared was born on April 25, 505 A.D. in the city of Aksum (Axum). His father was named Adam and his mother Tauklia.Qine. A very high, elaborate, cryptic, complex form of Ge’ez poetry is credited to…

People of good hearts are serving their guests in one corner of the world; to be exact in Horn of Africa. And more exact in Ethiopia. Thousands of years of history have taught them to be kind for travelers apart from their identity. ‘Welcome’ is the very word they utter in the first sight of a stranger. You too are welcome to visit this land of ours.…

 Wouldn’t it be fantastic to travel trough time? Resting on any century you like, you can witness the beauty of the past while you are enjoying the comfort of the present. Just pack your things right now to go back to the olden but golden times of Ethiopia. Born in the very center of the capital city Addis Ababa, Amran Ethiopia is waiting your arrival to take you far…

You probably have been to many countries if you are a traveler with great desire and curiosity to explore the globe. Have you ever been to Ethiopia? No!? Then you are like an incomplete shelf for one great book is lost from it. Whatsoever extensive your knowledge and experience might be, if you have not been among more than 80 nationalities living together in one nation as…

  The histories of every land of the world begin with legends. But, how many of them, do you think, have been able to reserve them in massive books and keep them inside museums? Ethiopia is one among the few to keep what some call legend (as Ethiopians believe that it is no legend but history) in great books reserved inside the National Museum at the…