🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Megalith
Olduvai Gorge Bed IV Site — Tigray (Axum)
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Olduvai Gorge Bed IV Site in Tigray, Ethiopia is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) megalithic attributed to Classical culture.
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🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Megalith
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Olduvai Gorge Bed IV Site in Tigray, Ethiopia is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) megalithic attributed to Classical culture.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Rock art
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Qohaito Market Street South in Tigray, Ethiopia is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) rock art attributed to Classical culture.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Temple complex
Proto-Aksumite (500 BCE–100 CE) · Hawelti-Melazo (Pre-Aksumite to Aksumite transition)
Hawelti — Melazo Aksumite Center in Tigray Region, Ethiopia is a Proto-Aksumite (500 BCE–100 CE) temple-complex attributed to Hawelti-Melazo (Pre-Aksumite to Aksumite transition).
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Earthwork
Konso · Konso people
UNESCO 2011 masterpiece of intensive hillside drystone terraces 60 km2 by Konso since 17th c (tradition 400 yr), stonewalled towns (paletas) with generation pa poles and waka anthropomorphic grave…
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Rock art
Later Stone Age / Aksumite · Pre-Aksumite / Aksumite
45 m long granite shelter with paintings of plough oxen, humpless cattle and inscriptions, plus 13 ka LSA through Aksumite stratigraphy.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Ancient village
Pre-Aksumite (800 BCE–100 CE) · Pre-Aksumite
Meqaber Ga'ewa — Yeha Hinterland Settlement in Tigray Region, Ethiopia is a Pre-Aksumite (800 BCE–100 CE) ancient-village attributed to Pre-Aksumite.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Rock-cut
Aksumite (400 BCE–800 CE) · Aksumite
Seglamen — Rock Church and Stelae in Tigray Region, Ethiopia is a Aksumite (400 BCE–800 CE) rock_cut attributed to Aksumite.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Tumulus
Period Medieval · Regional culture Africa-Tumulus
Rock-Cut Tomb Cluster Africa 63 — Ethiopia Region 3 in Ethiopia Region 3, Ethiopia is a Iron Age tumulus with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Tumulus
Period Late Holocene · Regional culture Africa-Tumulus
Hillfort Rampart Africa 47 — Ethiopia Region 11 in Ethiopia Region 11, Ethiopia is a Neolithic tumulus with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Megalith
Aksumite · Aksumite / Ge'ez
Capital of Aksumite Kingdom (100 BCE–940 CE) with monolithic granite stelae quarried 4 km, carved to imitate multi-storey buildings with false doors/windows, elite tombs, palaces.