The Western hemisphere is familiar with musical giants like Beethoven and Mozart and the beautiful compositions they left behind on the five-lined staves in treble and bass clef. Yet long before this ...

Falcetto was a promoter of music when he first heard Ethiopian music in 1984. As he explained when I met him, “A friend of mine was a stage manager for a theatre troupe who had been touring Africa and ...

The first panel in the mural is “The Cradle of Humankind.” It shows “Lucy,” the first discovery of a series of hominid precursors by Donald Johanson, then with the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, ...

Hagos Abrha Abay receives funding from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under German’s Excellence Strategy, project no. 390893796. He/she is affiliated with Center for ...

Detail from a manuscript made for King Lebna Dengel, circa 1520, Tädbabä Maryam Monastery, Ethiopia. Photograph by Diana Spencer, courtesy of the DEEDS Project In early 2020, just as the scope and ...

Joseph travels to Northern Ethiopia to uncover its ancient history. Joseph travels Northern Ethiopia from the monasteries of Lake Tana to the castles of King Fasiladas in Gondar and the rock-hewn ...