2013/12/01 by Tsegaye Beru · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #African history and culture analysis
paper · doi:10.1017/s0731126500011938
openalex publication_date 2013/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Abstract As a country, Ethiopia needs no introduction. Its three thousand years of history has been told and documented by many who lived in and traveled to Ethiopia The discovery of Lucy, the 3.2 million years old hominid, iconic fossil in the Afar region of Ethiopia in 1974, attests to the fact that Ethiopia is indeed one of the oldest nations in the world. The origin of the northern Ethiopian Empire, is chronicled in the legendary story of Cush, the son of Ham and the founder of the Axumite Kingdom, who gave the name Ethiopis to the area surrounding Axum and later to his son. Ethiopia is thus derived from it which in Greek means land of the burnt or black faces.