Lucy shot to superstardom after her discovery in Ethiopia in 1974. The members of the archaeological expedition who found her ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has been awarded a Certificate of Merit by the Ethiopian Pharmaceutical Association (EPA) ...

Gebeta, injera, rice pilaf, and the crown jewelers. One might wonder, what could all this possibly have in common? The answer lies in the decades long tradition of showcasing the different Armenian ...

The descendants of Ras Desta Damtew want the Imperial Order of the Star of Ethiopia to be on display in their homeland ...

In the U.S., Christmas dinner is usually about turkey. But other countries have a very different idea of the traditional meal ...

November marked 50 years since Lucy was found. Her partial skeleton upended several assumptions about the course of human ...

Since the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church's separation from the state, it has been losing members, notably to Protestant ...

My friend Selam Amare tells me ”Of course they know it’s Christmas. It’s Ethiopia. It is a Christian country.” But if you were sat with your dying child would Christmas matter to you?

Earlier this month, prominent Ethiopian politician Lencho Leta spoke to local media about his political journey. An edited video of his interview was shared with a text overlay claiming that ...

When Lucy was discovered in 1974, I was 4 or 5, so I couldn't possibly know what ... from Addis Ababa University and was assigned to work at the National Museum of Ethiopia where Lucy was housed in.

Paleontologists unearthed the iconic fossil in 1974. Today, her legacy remains just as much cultural as it is scientific.

Paleoanthropologists have learned a lot about Lucy, the world’s most famous hominin fossil, since she was discovered in 1974.