Waters from Lake Tana of Ethiopia and other sources run into the Blue Nile and meet up with the waters of the White Nile at Khartoum in Sudan where they continue to flow northwards toward the Meditteranean Sea.
The Great Rift Valley is very susceptible to earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and droughts.
Ethiopian archeological artifacts such as fossilized bone shows this region of the world as potentially being the site of the earliest homonids.
The remains of a character called Lucy were located in the Awash valley of the Afar region of Ethiopia. Carbon dating has led scientists to believe Lucy lived in the Ethiopian region some 3.2 million years ago.
In about 3000 BC, at about the time when the Upper and Lower Egypt regions were being united, there is evidence that trade routes were established between Ethiopia and Egypt. By some accounts the Ethiopian influence at this time were the Punt but this is not a proven fact since no one has quite been able to find evidence to pinpoint the origins of the Punt. These people are recorded as being traders of myrrh products, fine metals such as gold, etc....all of which were available in the mountainous terrain of Ethiopia.
Ethiopia doesn't seem to have had a really great culture until the kingdom of Axum came along in the first century AD.
D'mt existed in the northern Ethiopia in the 7th or 8th century BC. The D'mt site shows it to have been a necropolis and a ritual site. The kingdom of Axum seems to be an advancement on the D'mt customs.
A bit of Ethiopia can be sensed through this video.
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