Ethiopian History Uncovered

  Ethiopia is home to more than 100 million people the original home of the coffee bean seat of the African Union and a nation whose roots stretch back into ancient times Ethiopia has been heavily settled going far back into prehistory Damat is the earliest known kingdom in this region and was a contemporary of ancient Egypt and Nubia to the north on the opposite side of the red sea-facing Damat it was a kingdom of Saba in modern-day Yemen these kingdoms appear to have had close ties and some even theorize that they may have formed a single Kingdom according to Ethiopian tradition this was the home of the legendary queen of Sheba she converted to the faith of Solomon of Israel and bore his child who returned to Ethiopia to rule as king beginning a long line of Ethiopian kings who claimed direct descent from King Solomon.  The Ethiopian church today maintains the Ark of the Covenant was brought to this ancient kingdom during this period and is being kept safely there under guar...

  Ethiopia and the Bible the history of  Ethiopia and its relationship to the  Bible goes as far back to the writing of  the Bible itself Ethiopia is first  mentioned in the Bible after God planted  the Garden of Eden the Bible states that  one of the four rivers that flowed from  Eden was called the Gihon the same is it  that compasseth the whole land of  Ethiopia Genesis chapter 2 verse 13  so biblically speaking we see that  Ethiopia is as old as the creation of  the earth Ethiopia is mentioned 37 times  in the Old Testament and once in the New  Testament where the Apostle Philip  baptizes an Ethiopian eunuch who was a  servant of Queen Candace of Ethiopia al though the Ethiopian eunuch knew little  of Jesus Christ at that moment the  knowledge of the one true God of Israel  had been introduced into Ethiopia going  as far back into antiquity as to the  reign of King Solomon a...