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Ancient historical places Ethiopia has many collection of ancient historical attraction in the world. Some of the historical attractions are as follows:-

Ancient Historical Attraction Sites



AXUM (Northern Part)

 

The kingdom of Aksum, the first verifiable kingdom of great power to rise in Ethiopia, immerge during the first century AD. The Persian religious figure Mani listed Axum with Rome, Persia, and China as one of the four great powers of his time. It was in the early 4th century that a Syro-Greek castaway, Frumentius, was taken to the court and eventually converted king Ezana to Christianity, thereby making it an official religion. For this accomplishment, he received the title "Abba Selama". At various times, including a period in the 6th century, Axum controlled most of modern-day Yemen just across the Red Sea.


The Rock-Hewn Church of Tigrai

The rock hewn churches of Tigrai which were long known only to the locals were first exposed to the world by an Ethiopian catholic missionary by the name of Abba Tewledmedihin Yosef at the beginning of the 1960s. He identified about 120 rock hewn churches only in the vicinity of Tigrai, the largest of which are concentrated in central and Eastern Tigrai. Accordingly the church are classified in to four 1, Atsbi Group 2, the Hawzen kaleb Era-Garalta 3, sinkata Adigrate group 4, Tanbien Emperor Dawit group 1388-1411 Tigrai rock hewn churches are clustered in some specific area because the type of the rock in to which the rock hewn churches are carved. We find the rock hewn churches where there is sandstone although the converse is not necessarily true. The Tigrai region is characterized by rock assemblages that cover a wide geological time Spain.The southern part is represented by Cenozoic volcanic rocks, the central and part of eastern Tigrai is represented by Paleozoic and Mesozoic sedimentary successions (the Edaga Arbi Glacials, the Enticho sandstone the Adigrat sandstone and younger successions of the Mekele outlier). The northern and northwestern parts which extend to Eritrea are dominantly characterized by steeply dipping and extensively folded, rather low grade metamorphic rocks. All groups of rock hewn churches are clusted and carved from Enticho or Adigrat sandstones exposed by faulting or erosion. All the evidences indicate that the locations of the rock-hewn churches are far from arbitrary. They are rather systematic and governed by one important factor the rock type i.e. they are all carued in to the sandstone.


LALIBELA

Lalibela sometimes called as the eighth wonder of the world, where eleven churches were hewn out of solid bedrock almost 800 years ago. These incredible edifices remain places of living worship to this day. The legend says that angels helped build the churches which were built at great speed and seem to be of superhuman creation in scale, workmanship and concept.

 
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