3000 BC to 51 BC

Cradle of humankind

Ethiopia's Afar region has yielded some of the oldest known human ancestors, including Lucy, a 3.2 million year old skeleton found at Hadar in 1974, and some of the earliest fossils of modern humans come from the Omo valley. In the first millennium BC the kingdom of D'mt, linked to southern Arabia, rules the northern highlands and builds the great stone temple at Yeha.