Things to find in Ethiopia
2 legends, 1 cave, 1 gem & mineral ground on the free Club 49 adventure map
What the map holds here
- Axum and the Ark of the Covenant Legend
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church holds that the Ark of the Covenant is here, in the Chapel of the Tablet beside the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion, and that it came to Ethiopia with Menelik I, son of Solomon and the Queen...
Open it on the map · Read the story - Dallol Legend
A hydrothermal field in the Afar Depression at about 130 metres below sea level, where acid springs, salt terraces and fumaroles have painted the ground yellow, green and orange in patterns that look like nothing else on this...
Open it on the map · Read the story - Lalibela, the rock-hewn churches Cave
Eleven medieval churches carved DOWN into solid volcanic rock in the Ethiopian highlands in the 12th-13th centuries, connected by tunnels and trenches, the most famous, Bete Giyorgis, cut as a perfect cross sunk into the ground....
Open it on the map - Welo opal Gem & mineral ground
Ethiopia rewrote the opal market. Opal was found in volcanic ash beds in Wollo (Welo) province around 2008, hydrophane opal that plays every colour and, unusually, can absorb water and turn temporarily clear. Ethiopia is now one...
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