Tracing angels' footsteps in ancient Ethiopia
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LALIBELA, Ethiopia  - As a stranger draws near, priest Mesganaw Tarkgn whips on an embroidered cape and raises an ancient cross in a picture-perfect pose. He is used to the demands of visitors to one of Ethiopia's holiest sites.
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A discovery may provide insights about the farmers and some answers to the questions of how, why and when Egyptians adopted farming.
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A fossil of a gliding animal shows that mammals experimented with flight around when birds first took to the skies.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Ethiopia is a perilous place to be an Abyssinian lion - so perilous that an Italian aid group brought two orphaned cubs to  the Italian Embassy, where the wife of a diplomat has been caring for them  inside a fenced garden.
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KIBBUTZ TZUBA, Israel - Archaeologists think they've found a cave where John the Baptist baptized many of his followers - basing their theory on thousands of shards from ritual jugs, a stone used for foot cleansing and wall carvings telling the story of the biblical preacher.    Only a few artifacts linked to New Testament figures have ever been found in the Holy Land, and the cave is potentially a major discovery in biblical archaeology...
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Exactly 20 years ago, when the world first woke up to television reports of Ethiopia's catastrophic drought, Girmay Assefa was staggering along hundreds of kilometres (miles) of road in the country's northern Tigray region searching for food with his mother, brother and two young sisters.
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Two researchers are following the footsteps of the religious patriarch in the hope that people will rediscover their common roots.
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Ethiopian scientists said on Tuesday they have discovered hominid fossil fragments dating from between 3.5 million and 3.8 million years ago in what could fill a crucial gap in the understanding of human evolution.
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NASA scientists are using space satellites to unravel one of the great mysteries of the ancient world.  The long-lost secrets they're discovering could help modern people in Central America avoid the fate of the Maya.
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The newly discovered ruins of an ancient civilization in this remote eastern Utah canyon could reveal secrets about the descendants of the continent's original Paleo-Indians who showed up before the time of Christ to settle much of present-day Utah.
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Head lice taken from 1,000-year-old mummies in Peru support the idea that the little creatures accompanied humans on their first migration out of Africa, 100,000 years ago, researchers reported on Wednesday.
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BERAHILE, Ethiopia  - Like his father, grandfather and generations before them, Berhe Amare has spent his life walking camels along treacherous caravan routes from Ethiopia's Afar desert to the Tigray highlands.
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By LES NEUHAUS ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Ethiopia is a perilous place to be an Abyssinian lion - so perilous that an Italian aid group brought two orphaned cubs to the Italian Embassy, where the wife of a diplomat has been caring for them inside a fenced garden.
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A provocative study asks whether religion is a product of evolution. Inside a quest for the roots of faith
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WASHINGTON: Based on recent fossil evidences, American scientists have claimed that a chimp-sized hominid walked upright on two legs in Kenya&#39;s Tugen Hills over six million years ago, nearly three million years earlier than currently believed.
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BYBLOS, Lebanon  - A Lebanese scientist following the genetic footprint of the ancient Phoenicians says he has traced their modern-day descendants, but stumbled into an old controversy about identity in his country.
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The 3.3-million-year-old fossilised remains of a human-like child have been unearthed in Ethiopia's Dikika region.