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Ethiopia’s musicians fled the country after the 1974 revolution – how their culture lives on

The overthrow of Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie in 1974 led to violent…

Egypt unearths mummification workshops, tombs in ancient burial ground

Egypt unearthed human and animal mummification workshops as well as two tombs…

FEATURE: Preserving the heritage of Ethiopia’s ancient religious manuscript

Holding a bamboo ink pen, Ethiopian Orthodox priest Zelalem Mola carefully copies…

Iconic Sierra Leone tree to be preserved in a museum

Sierra Leonean President Julius Maada Bio says parts of the iconic cotton…

Storm fells symbolic 400-year-old cotton tree in Sierra Leone

Torrential rains in Sierra Leone’s capital have felled the centuries-old Cotton Tree,…

Sierra Leone’s iconic cotton tree felled by storm

An iconic landmark in the Sierra Leonean capital Freetown - a hundreds-year-old…

Scans seek to show how Egypt artists created mummy coffins

Two ancient Egyptian sarcophagi have undergone CT scans at a hospital in…

Egypt completes the installation of 50% of major artefacts at Grand Egyptian Museum

Supervisor of the Grand Egypt Museum (GEM) project and complex Major General…

Unearthing 100 years of Masindi Hotel’s forgotten historical treasures

Built in 1923 by The East Africa Railways and Harbours, Masindi Hotel…

Rwanda joins world to mark International Museum Day

Rwanda on Thursday, May 18 joined the global community to celebrate International…