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a visit to the national
museum ethopia

Quick Note

The National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa offers a
comprehensive overview of the country s natural, political and art

histories. You can easily spend a full morning or afternoon here
soaking in the edu-tainment. A cast of the bones of the
Australopithecus afarensis Lucy are here of course, but so is the
throne of Emperor Haile Selassie, traditional tools and textiles, and

displays about Ethiopia s different tribes. It s worth it to engage
one of the Museum s guides on a tour.

Weapon Artillery Used During the War
Map of the Museum

History of Lucy
Lucy is the common name of
AL - , several hundred
pieces of bone fossils
representing percent of the
skeleton of a female of the
hominin species
Australopithecus afarensis. In
Ethiopia, the assembly is also
The Remains of Lucy known as Dinkinesh, which
means you are marvelous in
the Amharic language. Lucy
was discovered in in
Africa, near the village Hadar in
the Awash Valley of the Afar
Triangle in Ethiopia, by
paleoanthropologist Donald
Johanson of the Cleveland
Museum of Natural History. The
Lucy specimen is an early
australopithecine and is dated
to about . million years ago.