From ancient times to this day, Massawa has been an eye catching, economically and culturally, strategic city for various colonizers including Portugal, Turkey, Egypt, Britain, Italy and Ethiopia. And that is the reason why Massawa’s exotic structural beauty of art goes back to hundreds of years following the invasion of the Ottoman Empire, the Egyptians and finally Italians in successions. All of these colonialists have left a legacy of their artistic dexterity believing that they will inherit this wondrous pearl of the Red Sea.
Today, August 11 is a religious holiday marked by an uphill excursion to the top of Mount Bizen where the ancient Bizen Monastery (Debre Bizen) lies like a crow’s nest.
Shipwrecks refer to the remains of ships that have been wrecked either beached on land or sunk to the bottom of a body of water by deliberate or accidental events. According to UNESCO’s statistical data it is estimated that over 3 million shipwrecks have lain within the past thousand years on the Earth´s Seas and Oceans. Regarding Africa, even though the number is enormous there are only 108 internationally recognized and registered ship wrecks. The general consensus is that historical wrecks are often not more than 50 years of age.
There are things that we regard as important to preserve for the future. They may be significant due to their present or potential economic value or because they create a certain emotion within us. They might be objects that can be held and buildings that can be explored, or songs that can be sung or stories that can be told. Whatever form they take, these things form part of a heritage, and this heritage requires active effort on our part in order to safeguard it.
As we sat there and watched Eritrea’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Saleh Osman, Advisor to President Isaias Afwerki Mr. Yemane Gebreab and Ethiopia Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed hold hands and signal the herald of peace for the two countries a fortnight ago; I saw tears roll down my mother’s face.
The comprehension of social relations through the window of monumentality features one of the key aspects of archaeological studies. The presence of monumental features and particularly monumental tombs and ceremonial structures in the landscape help archaeologists to understand the organization of social landscapes in archaeology. These studies provide insight into subsistence, domestic economy and mobility. Monumental structures also appear to lend themselves more readily to discussions about social relations, as spaces of social inclusion and exclusion, large-scale exchanges of concentrating resources or containers of social markers.
“Gubtish”, commonly called” tish”, is like a sauna bath Eritrean women use. “Gubtish” literally means to be in a fume or smoke steam. It is a smoke bath using aromatic plants and trees.
From ancient times to this day, Massawa has been an eye catching, economically and culturally, strategic city for various colonizers including Portugal, Turkey, Egypt, Britain, Italy and Ethiopia. And that is the reason why Massawa’s exotic structural beauty of art goes back to hundreds of years following the invasion of the Ottoman Empire, the Egyptians and finally Italians in successions. All of these colonialists have left a legacy of their artistic dexterity believing that they will inherit this wondrous pearl of the Red Sea.
Today, August 11 is a religious holiday marked by an uphill excursion to the top of Mount Bizen where the ancient Bizen Monastery (Debre Bizen) lies like a crow’s nest.
Shipwrecks refer to the remains of ships that have been wrecked either beached on land or sunk to the bottom of a body of water by deliberate or accidental events. According to UNESCO’s statistical data it is estimated that over 3 million shipwrecks have lain within the past thousand years on the Earth´s Seas and Oceans. Regarding Africa, even though the number is enormous there are only 108 internationally recognized and registered ship wrecks. The general consensus is that historical wrecks are often not more than 50 years of age.
There are things that we regard as important to preserve for the future. They may be significant due to their present or potential economic value or because they create a certain emotion within us. They might be objects that can be held and buildings that can be explored, or songs that can be sung or stories that can be told. Whatever form they take, these things form part of a heritage, and this heritage requires active effort on our part in order to safeguard it.
As we sat there and watched Eritrea’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Saleh Osman, Advisor to President Isaias Afwerki Mr. Yemane Gebreab and Ethiopia Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed hold hands and signal the herald of peace for the two countries a fortnight ago; I saw tears roll down my mother’s face.
The comprehension of social relations through the window of monumentality features one of the key aspects of archaeological studies. The presence of monumental features and particularly monumental tombs and ceremonial structures in the landscape help archaeologists to understand the organization of social landscapes in archaeology. These studies provide insight into subsistence, domestic economy and mobility. Monumental structures also appear to lend themselves more readily to discussions about social relations, as spaces of social inclusion and exclusion, large-scale exchanges of concentrating resources or containers of social markers.
“Gubtish”, commonly called” tish”, is like a sauna bath Eritrean women use. “Gubtish” literally means to be in a fume or smoke steam. It is a smoke bath using aromatic plants and trees.