Ethiopia

Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, stands as a landlocked country nestled in the Horn of Africa within the East African region. It shares borders with Eritrea to the northern side, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia stretching across the eastern and southeastern borders, Kenya to the south, South Sudan embracing the western perimeter, and Sudan marking the northwest border. Encompassing a vast expanse, Ethiopia blankets an area spanning 1,112,000 square kilometers (472,000 square miles).

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The old city of Axum

Aksum is the capital of the ancient kingdom of Aksum (1st millennium BC), ruled by the Solomonid dynasty, who considered themselves descendants of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. The city literally radiates an aura of antiquity. It is said th... read more

Ethiopia

Daga Island Monasteries

Not far from Gondar is a complex of monasteries dating from the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries, which houses several relics of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Several Ethiopian kings and emperors are buried in the monastery on Daga Island.

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The fortified town of Harer Jugol

The city of Harer is located in the eastern part of the country, on a plateau cut by deep gorges, surrounded by deserts and savannahs. Its fortified historical part, surrounded by walls built between the 13th and 16th centuries, the Jugol, is sacr... read more

Ethiopia

Ethiopian National Museum

The National Museum of Ethiopia is located in the centre of Addis Ababa and comprises four sections. The archaeological and paleoanthropological sections of the museum house their collections on the ground floor of the building. Here you can see a... read more

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Egypt

Khan Al-Khalili Market

Khan-Al-Khalili is a large market in the Muslim neighbourhood of Cairo, one of the city's striking landmarks. The square that Khan-Al-Khalili occupies was originally the site of the Saffron Tomb mausoleum, the burial place of the Fatimid caliphs. Emir Al-Khalili ordered the destruction of the Fatimid cemetery in 1382 in order to build a large caravanserai. At that time, this was the central... read more

Greece

Ancient Agora

In the heart of Athens, northwest of the Acropolis, lie the ruins of the Ancient Agora. During the period of ancient Greece (from about the beginning of the 6th century BC) it was the political, financial, administrative, cultural and religious ce... read more

Mali

Niono

The city of Niono is known as the "Venice of Mali" because of its system of canals and channels that criss-cross the entire city, and the local brick mosque is almost as famous as the famed Djenné Mosque.