The Danakil Depression, called the hottest place on the planet, was formed from the continental drift of the African and Asian tectonic plates ...

The poster is one of the first things you see when you step into the National Museum of Ethiopia, where Lucy herself—a 3.2-million-year-old hominid uncovered in the Afar Triangle in 1974—lies ...

Some also trade in the salt that can be mined from the Danakil Depression, a very hot and barren area lying below sea level and straddling the Eritrea-Ethiopia border. The Afars have their own ...

Over 36 years since its discovery in Ethiopia’s Afar Depression, the 3.2 million year ... and remnants of the ancient soil were taken as a sign that the hominins lived in a dry woodland habitat ...

Around 11 million years ago, a crack formed deep under the present Afar Depression, an area of north-east Ethiopia. The region sits on a hot, semisolid layer called the mantle. This mantle is ...

ADDIS ABABA, July 22 (Reuters) - Attacks by Tigrayan fighters in Ethiopia's Afar region have forced over 54,000 people from their homes, an official said on Thursday, and refugees in a camp in ...

The killing of five foreign tourists in north-west Ethiopia ... own language, Afar. Almost all of them are Sunni Muslims. Famed as the hottest place on Earth, the geological depression of salt ...