Tigray, the Cradle of Civilization

22/08/2023

Today marks the main Ashenda festival day in most parts of and wishes you Happy Ashenda celebrations for the beautiful, heroines and generous Tigrian girls and women.

22/08/2023

The week is the best week to see the unmeasurable beauty of the women blended with their authentic culture. Beauty is all about expressing yourself and your culture. .

22/08/2023

29/07/2023

The people are more beautiful than beauty itself, more proud than pride itself, more hero of heroism itself and they own a history older than time itself. .

25/09/2022

The museum inside the St Mary of Zion Church complex in contains an impressive haul of treasure, including an unsurpassed collection of former Ethiopian and Tigrian rulers’ crowns and a dazzling display of gold and silver chalices, crosses, jewellery and even drums. It clearly demonstrates the immense wealth of the Church and Tigray. .

23/09/2022

18/09/2022

While there are plenty of awe-inspiring man-made destinations around the globe, nothing is as creative as nature. is endowed with such natural gifts.

13/09/2022

Tigray is one of the famous, major producer and exporter of sesame(one of the oldest cultivated plants in the world) in sub-Saharan Africa, and Tigrian sesame is among the highest quality in the world. Among the dozens of sesame varieties in the world , it's the buttery, complex Humera seeds that produce the best tahini, prized throughout the world. The tahini is a blended fine to yield an ultracreamy consistency, and it has an intensely earthy, nutty flavor with little bitterness.

10/09/2022

Wishing you Happy Tigrian(Geez New Year) 2015.

06/09/2022

The Kingdom, a major empire of the ancient world, arose in during the first century C.E. This wealthy African civilization thrived for centuries, controlling a large territorial state and access to vast trade routes linking the Roman Empire to the Middle East and India. Aksum was also noteworthy for its elaborate monuments and written script, calendar as well as for introducing the Christianity and Islam religions to the rest of sub-Saharan Africa.

04/09/2022

The people of are one of the most religious people in the world and the major religion of the people are Orthodox Christianity, Islam, Catholic and Protestant but the people have one major and common religion called .

03/09/2022

is land of rich history & culture, amazing landscape and beautiful & hospitable people and beyond. Wishing you a blessed weekend.

02/09/2022

The first Muslim settlement in the world was in in 615 A.D, when the Prophet Muhammad sent his companions (the Sahaba) from Mecca to Aksum, where “a righteous Christian King,” known as “Nejashi” would provide protection from religious persecution. Wishing you happy and blessed jumʿah and weekend.

31/08/2022

ABRHA WE ATSBEHA ROCK HEWN CHURCH
Cut from a single mountain rock between 335 and 340 AD by the two famous twin-brothers kings Ezana and Sayzana, later on, named Abraha and Atsbeha, this is one of the several hundreds of important rock churches in .
Carved entirely out of a protruded sedimentary rock recessed into a continuous chain of mountains, Abraha We Atsbeha is one of the finest of rock churches in Tigrai. It is easily accessible on the main asphalt road 16km Wuqro to Gheralta. The church has a massive cruciform interior, perhaps the largest of the region’s rock-cut churches, and an elaborately carved roof supported by thick pillars and decorated arches.

30/08/2022

The Ezana Stone is an ancient stele still standing in modern day Axum, the centre of the ancient Kingdom of Aksum. This stone monument, that probably dates from the 4th century of the Christian era, documents the conversion of King Ezana to Christianity and his conquest of various neighbouring areas, including Meroë.
The king's engravings in stone provided a trilingual monument in different languages,Ge'ez, Sabaean, and Greek.

29/08/2022

The main concentration of rock-hewn churches in the world – more than 100 of them – lies in . These churches remained largely unknown to the outside world until the 1960s. Many are in remote locations near the top of sandstone cliffs, making them scenic that most visitors describe them as ''Churches in the Sky". Wishing you a blessed week a head.

28/08/2022

Wishing you a blessed Sunday. .

27/08/2022

Rock-Hewn Church of Abba Yohanni in

located halfway up a 300m-high sheer cliff face. This 4th century Church is dedicated to Abba Yohanni.

old wall paintings, & rock architecture, beautiful scenery, the book of Enoch & other old parchments & crosses, story telling, inner tunnel used as a get & passage to the main Church, are the unique features makes worth visit of the Church.

23/08/2022

is known for its thousands' years old diverse music history and age long distinctive traditional musical instruments that are created by the Tigray people. One of the traditional musical instruments is a very long flute-like musical instrument traditionally made from the Argezana bamboo trunk. It is held by both hands in a horizontal position and played by blowing air into the tube. It is without finger holes and is today made either from bamboo tube or mostly from metallic tube. This instruments is popular in Axum area. To enjoy the amazing sound of embilta, you can click the YouTube link below.
. https://youtu.be/iZkTtsSfWGk

20/08/2022

known for its rich culture and since Culture is the lifeblood of a vibrant society, expressed in the many ways, there is a need as the people of to tell our stories, celebrate, remember the past, entertain ourselves, and imagine the future. Our creative expression helps define who we are, and helps us see the world through the eyes of others too.

19/08/2022

The Wukro Archeological museum in is one of the modern museums in Tigray with it's fine exhibition hall covering archaeological finds from the 7th-century Sabean site of Meqaber Ga'ewa and elsewhere. There are tablet inscriptions, Axumite coins and a fine sacrificial altar worthy to visit and learn.

18/08/2022

In the heartland, and its capital Mekele, is the Martyr's memorial Monument that was inaugurated 2001. It’s a justified celebration of a victorious long struggle (at great human cost). It is the largest modern monument in the entire East Africa.

17/08/2022

High above Aksum, on top of a tall, narrow peak, is Abba Pentalewon monastery. Tradition states it was built by Abba Pentalewon, one of the Nine Saints. The views, the monastery itself and the treasures are all worth the climb. The original church, the foundation of which can still be seen, that date back to the 6th century but the attractive ‘old’ church (men only) is from the 1940s.

16/08/2022

The people are more beautiful than beauty itself, more proud than pride itself and they own a history older than time itself. .

16/08/2022

has a rich heritage of music and dance, using drums and stringed instruments tuned to a pentatonic scale. among the different dances performed for different occasions and purposes, is one of the popular dance in Tembien area it's a dance with sort of competition between both genders those who didn't perform well or those who are tired are replaced by better performers.