An Abilene Christian University research project got a little financial help recently from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Curt Niccum, associate director of the Center for the Study of ...

(JTA) — Tel Aviv University announced the launch of what it says is the world’s first academic program focused on the holy scriptures of Ethiopian Jews. The program, aimed currently at graduate ...

They’re one greatest cultural and religious treasures not only in Ethiopia but also in Africa and in Christendom: the ancient rock-hewn churches of Lalibela. And now a United Nations agency is worried ...

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 ...

Mariyam Yohannis sat on a bench under a gazebo at Lake Ella four years ago. It was August of 2015, and she was soon to be on her way — on a mission she had dreamed about for years. She was as ...

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 ...