The Blue Nile and the Lake Tana, located in the North West highlands of Ethiopia in the Amara Regional State, have been a passion that has driven many explorers since historic times. In ancient Greece ...

Water Systems and Environmental Context Lake Tana plays a central role in Ethiopia’s hydrological structure. As the source of the Blue Nile, it connects local environmental systems to regional and ...

Extracted from: Rassegna di studi etiopici (Rome) 12, 1953, pages 29-70. Essay on the Ethiopian Orthodox monastery of Gunda Gunde and the architecture of its church. The monastery has a large ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Five hundred years ago, an Imam who ruled much of what is now Somalia, led a daring invasion of Christian Ethiopia, looting monasteries, burning down churches and slaying all who ...