The government of Ethiopia has called for the cancellation of a sale of a shield at a British auction house. The object was looted in 1868 during the Battle of Maqdala, a punitive expedition against ...

CARLO CONTI-ROSSINI, the greatest living authority on Ethiopian culture and history, has described Ethiopia as a "museum of peoples." For thousands of years diverse peoples have beaten against the ...

Three columns of fresh infantry marched through narrowing mountain passages; they would approach Adwa by 9 a.m. This Week in History, thousands of men and women take up arms in a desperate struggle to ...

Ringed about by British, French and Italian dominated territories, the quadruple Empire of Abyssinia or Ethiopia, comprising the Kingdoms of Tigre, Amhara, Gojam and Shoa, survives as the one potent ...

Based on the author's thesis, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Label pasted over title page imprint reads, "Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc. Import Division." Reviewed by ...