" However, Beckingham and Huntingford have a much higher opinion of Álvares testimony, stating that not only is it " incomparably more detailed than any earlier account of Ethiopia that has survived ; it is also a very important source for Ethiopian history, for it was written just before the country was devastated by the Muslim Somali and pagan Galla invasions of the second quarter of the sixteenth century.

Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses on account of his marriage to an Ethiopian, Josephus explains the marriage of Moses to this Ethiopian in the Antiquities of the Jews and about him being the only one through whom the Lord spoke.

The Ethiopian tradition has a detailed account of the affair.

The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church recognized Pilate as a saint in the 6th century, based on the account in the Acts of Pilate, as it does his wife, Claudia Procula, whose strange dream of Christ induced her to try to stop his crucifixion.

Mengistu's father Haile Mariam Wolde was very proud of his son's achievements, though some people believe the Ethiopian popular account that states that his family was far from proud of his political accomplishments.

Excavations at Aksum: An account of research at the ancient Ethiopian capital directed in 1972-74 by the late Dr Nevill Chittick London: British Institute in Eastern Africa, 1989 ISBN 0-500-97008-4

The Queen of Sheba ( ), is named Makeda ( Mākədā ) in the Ethiopian account.

Hiob Ludolf, in his Historia aethiopica, was the first to clearly distinguish the Crocuta from Hyaena on account of physical, as well as geographical grounds, though he never had any first hand experience of the species, having gotten his accounts from an Ethiopian intermediary.

The known Beta Israel versions of the Ethiopian legend of origin take as their basis the account of Menelik's return to Ethiopia.

Herodotus had spoken of the Garamantes hunting the Ethiopian Troglodytes with their chariots ; this account was associated with depictions of horses drawing chariots in contemporary cave art in southern Morocco and the Fezzan, giving origin to a theory that the Garamantes, or some other Saran people, had created chariot routes to provide Rome and Carthage with gold and ivory.

Eritrean cuisine strongly resembles those of neighboring Ethiopia and Somalia, except for the fact that Eritrean and Somali cooking tend to feature more seafood than Ethiopian cuisine on account of their coastal locations.

James Bruce includes in his account of Ethiopia the translation of a letter the Ethiopian Emperor Tewolfos sent him dated 21 January 1706, wherein he addresses him as " king Badi, son of king Unsa ".

In the tradition of Ethiopian Orthodoxy, the Kebra Nagast says:

" On the basis of the Ethiopian national epic, the Kebra Negast, Rastas interpret this verse as meaning she conceived his child, and from this, conclude that African people are among the true children of Israel, or Jews.

According to the medieval Ethiopian cultural work called the Kebra Nagast, Sheba was located in Ethiopia.

In the medieval Ethiopian cultural work called the Kebra Nagast, Sheba was located in Ethiopia.

The rukh is also identified in the Ethiopian holy book Kebra Negast as the agent responsible for delivering the blessed piece of wood to King Solomon which enabled the great king to complete the Temple.

In the Ethiopian Book of Aksum, she is described as establishing a new capital city at Azeba, while the Kebra Negast refers to her building a capital at Debra Makeda, or " Mount Makeda ".

An ancient compilation of Ethiopian legends, Kebra Negast (' the Glory of Kings '), is dated to seven hundred years ago and relates a history of Makeda and her descendants.

Based on Jewish biblical tradition and Ethiopian legend via Kebra Nagast, Rastas believe that Israel's King Solomon, together with Ethiopian Queen of Sheba, conceived a child which began the Solomonic line of kings in Ethiopia, rendering the African people as the true children of Israel, and thereby chosen.

The Ethiopian history described in the Kebra Negast, or " Book of the Glory of Kings ," relates that Ethiopians are descendants of Israelite tribes who came to Ethiopia with Menelik I, alleged to be the son of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba ( or Makeda, in the legend ) ( see and ).

Although the Kebra Nagast and some traditional Ethiopian histories have stated that Yodit ( or " Gudit ," Judith ; another name given her was " Esato ," Esther ), a 10th century usurping queen, was Jewish, some scholars consider that it is unlikely that this was the case.

Furthermore, the Zagwe dynasty legitimated itself ( again, even according to the Kebra Nagast itself ) through the claim that its lineage descended from Moses and his Ethiopian wife.

As the Ethiopianist Edward Ullendorff explained in the 1967 Schweich Lectures, " The Kebra Nagast is not merely a literary work, but it is the repository of Ethiopian national and religious feelings.

According to the colophon attached to most of the existing copies, the Kebra Nagast originally was written in Coptic, then translated into Arabic in the Year of Mercy 409 ( dated to AD 1225 ) by a team of Ethiopian clerics during the office of Abuna Abba Giyorgis, and finally into Ge ' ez at the command of the governor of Enderta Ya ' ibika Igzi '.

The Kebra Nagast and Ethiopian historical tradition states that Kaleb had two sons, Gabra Masqal and Israel.

The traditional history of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church also maintains that Joktan's sons would take no part in the tower building, and that they were thus allowed to preserve the original Ge ' ez language — which their descendants, the Agazyan, carried across the Red Sea into Ethiopia as they mixed with the Cushitic and Agaw people to form the hybrid Habesha race.

Among other things it was the home of the Biblical " Queen of Sheba " ( named Makeda in Ethiopian tradition and Bilqis in Islamic tradition ).

The Biblical tradition of the " Queen of Sheba " ( named Makeda in Ethiopian tradition and Bilqis in Islamic tradition ) makes its first appearance in world literature in 1 Kings 10, describing her as travelling to Jerusalem to behold the fame of King Solomon.

Traditionally Ethiopian emperors were crowned at the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion in Axum, the site of the chapel in which is kept what is believed to be the Ark of the Covenant, in order to validate the new emperor's legitimacy by reinforcing his claim to descent from Menelik I, the son of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, who is believed to have brought the Ark from Jerusalem to Axum.

The Museum also holds James Lafayette's society portraits, a collection of over 600 photographs dating from the late 19th to early 20th centuries and portraying a wide range of society figures of the period, including bishops, generals, society ladies, Indian maharajas, Ethiopian rulers and other foreign leaders, actresses, people posing in their motor cars and a sequence of photographs recording the guests at the famous fancy dress ball held at Devonshire House in 1897 to celebrate Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee.

* Knud Tage Andersen, " The Queen of the Habasha in Ethiopian History, Tradition and Chronology ", Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 63 ( 2000 ), pp. 31-63

* Ethiopian Treasures — Queen of Sheba, Aksumite Kingdom — Aksum

Both Christian and Jewish Ethiopian tradition has it that there were also immigrants of the Tribes of Dan and Judah that accompanied Makeda ( Queen of Sheba ) back from her visit to Solomon ; hence the Ge ' ez motto Mo ` a ' Anbessa Ze ' imnegede Yihuda (" The Lion of the Tribe of Judah has conquered "), included among the titles of the Emperor ( King of Kings ) throughout the Solomonic Dynasty.

Góis translated into Latin a Portuguese opuscle on the Ethiopian embassy of the Armenian Mateus ( the representative of the Negus Dawit II ) to Portugal ( 1532 ), which also included the famous " Letter of Prester John " written by the Ethiopian Queen Eleni ( 1509 ) and a " Confessio illorum fidei ".

The Queen of Sheba (, ;, ;, ) was a monarch of the ancient kingdom of Sheba and is referred to in Ethiopian history, the Bible, the Qur ' an, Yoruba customary tradition, and Josephus.

An Ethiopian fresco of the Queen of Sheba travelling to Solomon.

One group, which includes the British scholar Edward Ullendorff, holds that it is a corruption of " Candace ", the Ethiopian queen mentioned in the New Testament Acts ; the other group connects the name Makeda with the Ethiopic version of the Alexander romance, which, like other translations, holds that ' Iskinder ' ( Alexander the Great ) of Macedonia ( Ethiopic Meqédon ) met with Queen Candace ( Kandake ) of Nubia ( c. 332 BC ) and that she dissuaded him from invading her realm.

Menelik II, and later his daughter Zewditu, would be the last Ethiopian monarchs who could claim uninterrupted direct male descent from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba ( both Lij Iyasu and Emperor Haile Selassie I were in the female line, Iyasu through his mother Shewarega Menelik, and Haile Selassie through his paternal grandmother, Tenagnework Sahle Selassie ).

There is a Lebanese Maronite community based at Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church in Cirencester Street in West London ; a Melkite community in Pimlico, at St Barnabas ' Church of England church ; an Ethiopian Catholic church, Our Lady Queen of Heaven, in Queensway West London ; an Eritrean Catholic church, St Francis of Assisi, in Notting Hill ; a Chaldean Catholic church, St Anne's, in Laston Place and a Belarusian Catholic church in Holden Avenue in North London.

Mary Wroth joined the Queen and her friends in the production ; all of whom painted their skin to portray black, Ethiopian nymph who called themselves the ' twelve daughters of Niger '.

Meskel ( Ge ' ez: መሰቀል ), in the Ethiopian Orthodox and Eritrean Orthodox Churches, is an annual religious holiday commemorating the discovery of the True Cross by Queen Helena ( Saint Helena ) in the fourth century.