The poster is one of the first things you see when you step into the National Museum of Ethiopia, where Lucy herself—a 3.2-million-year-old hominid uncovered in the Afar Triangle in 1974—lies ...

Yonas Desta Tsegaye, director general of the National Museum of Ethiopia, came up with the idea of also taking the bones of “Lucy,” the 3.2 million-year-old hominid Australopithecus afarensis.

People visit the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on May 18, 2022. The museum houses collections of precious heritages, including fossilized bones of a female of the hominin ...

The National Museum is indeed a national institution, ... At the front entrance is a large and only somewhat dilapidated map of Ethiopia which shows 19 archaeological and historical sites.

For a 40-cent entrance fee, the National Museum of Ethiopia has exhibitions on African art history and human evolution. A plaster replica of Lucy’s partial skeleton is on display, ...

Addis Ababa, June 27, 2026 (ENA)— Global Health Innovation and Quality Summit participants have commended the preservation of heritages and archeological artifacts of Ethiopia at the National ...

A 19th-century Ethiopian shield pillaged by the British during the 1868 Battle of Maqdala will be repatriated in November, after a brief stint on display at Ohio’s Toledo Museum of Art (until 27 ...