Archeologist Samuel Walker studies the site of a possible medieval city outside Ethiopia's capital of Addis Ababa. For archaeologists like Samuel Walker and his colleague Ayele Tarekegn, it’s evidence that this was once the site of a medieval city. While there are medieval ruins in Ethiopia, not much is known about the period. It is incredibly wealthy and artistically articulate,” said Verena Krebs, an expert on medieval Ethiopia at Germany’s Ruhr-University Bochum. The Ethiopian forces retreated from the area around modern-day Addis Ababa; into the vacuum came the Oromo people from the south.

Source: Ethiopian News November 03, 2018 11:01 UTC