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)
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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.