Tiya World Heritage Site

Official name

Tiya | UNESCO

Country

Ethiopia | Map

Continent

Africa

Location

Sodo woreda, Gurage zone, Southern Nation Nationalities & Peoples Region
8.4349° Lat, 38.6121° Lon | Map

Code

12

Time Zone

Africa/Addis_Ababa (EAT, +0300)

Current Time

Category

Cultural

Description

Inscribed 1980. Tiya is among the most important of the roughly 160 archaeological sites discovered so far in the Soddo region, south of Addis Ababa. The site contains 36 monuments, including 32 carved stelae covered with symbols, most of which are difficult to decipher. They are the remains of an ancient Ethiopian culture whose age has not yet been precisely determined.