Archaeologists have found that some of Ethiopia's 20-feet-tall phallic monoliths, or 'stelae', were made some 2,070 years ago - 1,000 years earlier than previously thought. All three locations fall within Ethiopia's Gedeo zone, which harbours Africa's highest concentration of megalithic stelae, with around 10,000 monuments over 60 sites. Archaeologists have found that some of Ethiopia's 20-feet-tall phallic monoliths — or 'steale' — were made 2,070 years ago, 1,000 years earlier than thought. Not much is known about the people who populated the Sakaro Sodo region at the turn of the first millennium. Partially completed stelae were found in quarry sites in both Ethiopia's Gedeo zone as well as further afield in the Sidama region.

Source: Ethiopian News December 13, 2021 22:46 UTC