Haile Selassie’s grandson has bought an Ethiopian shield at an auction to return the artefact to its homeland. The object, made of silver and animal hide, was stolen by British forces at the Battle of ...

长期以来，古人类学家一直认为，在非洲的这一地区，大约在380万年前到300万年前之间，南方古猿阿法种（A. afarensis）是唯一生活在这里的早期人类亲属。以露西（Lucy）为代表的该物种一直被视为“产生一切的祖先物种，我们所有人的母亲”，伦敦自然历史博物馆（Natural History Museum in London）的古生物学家Fred Spoor说，他撰写了一篇随附的《自然新闻与观点 ...

Emperor Haile Selassie was born on July 23, 1892 as Tafari Makonnen just outside the city of Harrar in Enjersa Goro Province, Ethiopia. His mother was Yeshimbet Ali Abajiffar and his father was Ras ...

Asfa-Wossen Asserate, trans. from the German by Peter Lewis. Univ. of Chicago/Haus, $29.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-910376-14-0 Offering his perspective as a grandnephew of Haile Selassie (1892–1975), ...

Haile Selassie I was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974. He rose to power as Regent Plenipotentiary of Ethiopia (Enderase) for Empress Zewditu from 1916. He is widely considered a defining figure ...

The World Athletics Heritage Plaque was awarded to the Great Ethiopian Run during a ceremony in the National Museum of ...

Foot bones and other fossils have been attributed to Australopithecus deyiremeda, a recently discovered species that may shake up the human family tree.

The legacy of Ethiopia's last emperor Haile Selassie remains contested in his increasingly polarised country half a century after his death: praised as a moderniser by some, others condemn him as an ...

Sept. 12 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1609, Henry Hudson discovered what is now known as the Hudson River. In 1940, near Montignac, France, the prehistoric Lascaux cave paintings, believed to ...

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Mengistu Haile Mariam, a former lieutenant-colonel in the Ethiopian army, led a coup that ousted Emperor Haile Selassie from power in 1974. Mengistu took control of the government and served as its ...

Ethiopian-Americans in Denver and other U.S. cities are demanding that a Swiss wristwatch owned by the late Emperor Haile Selassie be returned to his royal descendants. They have been working with ...