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Articular Knowledge

1. Axum
2. Lalibela
3. Fasil Gonder
The main Obelisk of Axum (Amharic:
?) is supposedly 1,700 years
old, 24 meters tall (79-foot) is made of
granite, and weighs 160 tonnes.

It is ornamented with two false doors at the


base and features decorations resembling
windows on all sides.

How could they have shaped hard granite


that long ago, and on that scale?
Rock-Hewn Churches, Lalibela
The 11 medieval monolithic cave churches of this 13th-
century 'New Jerusalem' are situated in a mountainous
region in the heart of Ethiopia near a traditional village
with circular-shaped dwellings.

Lalibela is a high place of Ethiopian Christianity, still


today a place of pilmigrage and devotion.
Fasil building

Fasil Ghebbi, Gondar Region


In the 16th and 17th centuries, the fortress-city of
Fasil Ghebbi was the residence of the Ethiopian
emperor Fasilides and his successors.
Surrounded by a 900-m-long wall, the city contains
palaces, churches, monasteries and unique public
and private buildings marked by Hindu and Arab
influences, subsequently transformed by the
Baroque style brought to Gondar by the Jesuit
missionaries.

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