Historic Heritages

Ethiopia has attracted the receptive travelers since years before the appearance of the known Ethiopian tourist sites i.e. (Lalibela, Axum, and Lucy). And sites admired among adherents to Christianity, Islam and Judaism and diverse African traditional societies. Ethiopia has very distinct cultural and historic products based on ancient Axumite civilizations and the Ethiopian Orthodox Church; the walled Old City of Harar with its seven gates considered as the fourth holiest city in Islam; as a cradle of civilization, with fossilized evidence of the ancestors of homo sapiens as old as 4.4 million years B.C., and the much more famous “Dinknesh”, or Lucy and Selam also discovered recently.

 Ethiopia played very crucial role for African independence. It’s his magi sty emperor Hile sellase (RasTeferi) waged a lot for the foundation of AAU today AU which capital at Addis Ababa. His magi sty has been rooted relations with Jamaicans they call themselves RAS TEFERIAN'S including Bob Marley. That is why many Jamaicans settle at Shashemene-Ethiopia. Many African countries proud of Ethiopian glory over Italians at a battle of Adwa which is a point that shifts the world’s history and understanding over black societies across the globe.

1. SILENT GIANTS

Three parks planted with giant stelae, a labyrinth of royal tombs, vestiges of the Queen of Sheba’s palace, an “Ethiopian

Rosetta Stone”, the Ark of the Covenant containing the Ten Commandments... an incredible treasure, poised between myth and history, is hidden in Aksum, where the heart of ancient Ethiopia still beats

2. ROHA (LALIBELA)

Perched at an altitude of 2,500 meters in the Amhara region, the small village of Lalibela has been home to an astonishing gem of religious architecture for the last eight centuries. Constructed of single blocks of stone, the village’s churches were added to the World Heritage List in 1978.

3. GONDAR

The Royal City of Gondar was founded by the Ethiopian Negus Fasilides in the 17th century. Several of his successors built their palaces in the same court, forming a complex of rare beauty. The site was inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List in 1979. Not far away, the ruins of a more ancient castle left in solitude have another story to tell.

 4. LAKE TANA AND ITS MONASTERIES

The country could be subject to fire and sword, but no invader ever troubled the Serene peace of Lake Tana. For that reason, the Ethiopian kings safely hid their treasures in churches on the lake’s islands. But upon careful observation, another treasure is revealed as one discovers the mural paintings in these churches: they can be read like a book of Ethiopian history.

5. SODO

Not far from Addis Ababa, in the Soddo area, is a field that contains stele found nowhere else in the world. A cemetery was uncovered, with bodies buried in the position of prayer. We are in the very mysterious archeological site of Tiya, inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1980.

6. Axum Obelisk

In relation to the recent reinstallation of the Aksum Obelisk in its original location in northern Ethiopia, becomes more historic. Axum is another treasure equally obvious, equally monumental like the castles of Gondar, equally visible like the rock-hewn churches of Lalibela, and just expect it as impressive: Ethiopia’s intangible heritage.