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Where in the world

Ethiopia

Tiya archaeological site

Medieval Ethiopian · Ethiopia

Field notes

civilizations: Medieval Ethiopian
types: Stone alignment
occupied: 1,000 CE — 1,400 CE
country: Ethiopia

The site

Tiya is a medieval Ethiopian stone-alignment site, active roughly between 1000 and 1400 CE and now inscribed as World Heritage. It belongs to a broader tradition of carved standing stones set across this region of Ethiopia, markers raised in rows across the landscape. As a rare surviving field of these engraved megaliths, Tiya preserves a monumental record of a culture that left few other traces.

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