I’m about to challenge those beliefs again as I go from the Book of Enoch, which much like the oldest Bible in Ethiopia is v different to what the Bible says now. Next the tablets of Thoth and the Hermetica are coming through the post. 😁👊🏻

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መዝሙረ፡ ዳዊት, the Psalms of David, held in the monastery of Dimā Giyorgis Previously owned by Dejazmach Balcha ባልቻ (1863 –1936) Balcha was a military commander & lord protector of the crown, he fought at the battle of Adwa 1896 & the Italo-Ethiopian War

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[EDITORIAL]
AFRICA, a new book!
Our weekly editorial is online on our website
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✏️ (South Africa) & (Ethiopia)

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The "Ardi" skeleton from Aramis, Ethiopia, provides the most complete cranial, dental, and postcranial evidence of any hominoid from the Early Pliocene. Some of its features point to a relationship with later remains.

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"Aethiopia Inferior vel Exterior"

Very attractive copper engraving map of South Africa.
By Willem Janszoon Bleau ca 1640.
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The variability of the fossils from Hadar, Ethiopia, has long been attributed to sexual dimorphism and temporal trends within Australopithecus afarensis. The recent discovery of other species at nearby sites may require re-evaluation of this idea.

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A child's skull from Herto, Ethiopia, appears to document a mortuary practice involving the long-term keeping and handling of human remains, more than 147,000 years ago. Cultural observance of death may go back much further in ancestry.

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May 2 : Easter 5 & we hear of the baptism Ethiopian eunuch, the love that casts out fear & that we are intimately grafted into Christ as branches to a vine. So we pray that the life of Christ the vine whose love is broad, inclusive & boundary breaking may flow through us so 1/2

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Grey Area
Julie Mehretu b.1970 Ethiopian/American Artist

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Did the enigmatic 12th-century Prester John and his wonderous empire spring from Ethiopia, despite its kings denying this? https://t.co/147l1CCaSz

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Poseidon, angered by Cassiopeia’s vain assertion that she is more beautiful than the Nereids, instals a sea dragon to raze Ethiopia as divine retribution. Andromeda chained to a rock as a sacrifice to assuage the monster, is saved by the hero Perseus.
🎨BurneJones

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Ancient name of Africa


The ancient name of Africa was Alkebulan. Alkebu-lan “mother of mankind” or “garden of Eden”.” Alkebulan is the oldest and the only word of indigenous origin. It was used by the Moors,Nubians, Numidians,Khart-Haddans (Carthagenians) and Ethiopians.

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Musaphoga-Turaco birds live in Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda, Kenya, Nigeria, West Africa, Cameroon, Congo, Angola, Zambia, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Botswana, South Africa.

Publishers: Hermann Schlegel and G.F. Westermann https://t.co/1lD4eNltYw

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Moses and his Ethiopian wife, Jacob Jordaens, circa 1650. Collectie Rubenshuis, Antwerp

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Saint Philip baptizing an Ethiopian eunuch, who has brought along a Native American friend for the occasion. Why not? 1620 by Pieter Lastman, whose day is today.

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Oh boy another redesign! This time, it's Wyatt, the ethiopian wolf.
I drew this guy a looong time ago and his design was honestly a bit boring. Gave him a new jersey as well as a more friendly face.

⚽️ https://t.co/tB8RE2nyRj

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Day 14: A Culture That is Not Yours (Mursi tribe)

Mursi women are famous for placing a disc in their earlobe or lower lip from an early age

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BOU-VP-16/1 is one of three skulls from near Herto, Ethiopia, that bear cutmarks or other signs of mortuary practices. The discoveries came near some of the latest Acheulean handaxe-dominated assemblages in Africa, around 155,000 years old.

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FROM ETHIOPIA: The works of young Ethiopian Selome Muleta focus on the female experience as it occurs behind closed doors: reflected in striking juicy colors, her heroines are your bffs, cousins, young aunts, performing themselves when the world isn’t watching (via )

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