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Head of a lion in the rocks above Yeha

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Although difficult to imagine nowadays, Yeha was once the most important city of the region of Tigray. What remains is the oldest standing building in Ethiopia.
When you enter the village of Yeha, with its stone houses and dusty roads set in a pretty valley in northern Ethiopia, it seems hard to believe that this was one of the major cities of the region. But then again, the heydays of Yeha lie more than 2000 years ago, and a lot has happened since. It predates the Axumite empire, when Yeha was the capital of the Damot empire. By the time Axum achieved its climax, Yeha had already declined in power, and has probably looked much the way it looks nowadays.
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