The Ethiopian Christians lived in an ancient Christian Kingdom. One with a church as old as Rome, that held exotic beasts and great treasures like the Ark of the Covenant. A land ruled by a man, a ...

Jerusalem, the Kingdom of Israel Circa 950 BC, the Queen Makeda of Ethiopia, AKA the Queen of Sheba, asked King Solomon to teach her statecraft. However, King Solomon has other ideas in mind to help ...

Haile Selassie was known as a child as Lij Tafari Makonnen. Lij is translated as 'child' and serves to indicate that a youth ...

According to this legend, a Christian priest named Prester John ruled as monarch over a vast and wealthy Christian Empire. According to many traditions, Ethiopia was the land of the powerful ...

Huge carved obelisks and stelas in northern Ethiopia were erected by the kings of the Aksum Empire, who ruled the Horn of Africa and Red Sea region for much of the first millennium A.D. The ...

Through North Africa, Christianity was embraced as the religion of dissent against the expanding Roman Empire. In the 4th century AD the Ethiopian King Ezana made Christianity the kingdom's ...

Ethiopia lodged a formal request in 2008 at ... often described as the largest military offensive by the British empire in Africa, saw thousands of soldiers deployed to face Emperor Tewodros ...

At Awash last week, at the edge of the spidery railroad bridge crossing the Awash River (see cut), a Swiss machine gun expert named Whittley was working like mad to protect the only railway ...

In Ethiopia, first names are all-important - the ... As part of efforts to unite their empire, these monarchs made Amharic the language of state. Many chose Amharic names to fit in, but with ...

Two Guatemalans wearing traditional embroidered skirts bought coconut boba teas on an October afternoon at the bustling ...

First Lutheran Church was founded by Swedish immigrants, including the maids to the Dayton family, who lived up the block and ...

Quincy Jones, who expanded the American songbook as a musician, composer and producer and shaped some of the biggest stars of the 20th century, has died at 91.