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• "Against All Odds" -- African Languages and Literatures into the 21st Century: January 11-17, 2000, Asmara, Eritrea. (College of the Liberal Arts, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania)
  General information about the conference and its proceedings, including the  Asmara Declaration on African Languages and Literatures, January 2000. See also, the  French version.
  
  
• Aksum: an African civilisation of late antiquity. By Stuart Munro-Hay. (1991) -- Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press, 1991. Electronic plain text version posted by Alan Light.
  
  
• Asmara and Eritrea, 2003 (Hans van der Splinter & Mebrat Tzehaie, The Netherlands)
  An extensive collection of photographs and a few explanatory texts on various aspects of the city of Asmara, its people, and its culture; and about the country of Eritrea as a whole.
  
  
• "City of Dreams" -- A film by Edward Scott and Naigzy Gebremedhin on Asmara (Eyelevel Productions, Washington, DC)
  "In City of Dreams, Architect Naigzy Gebremedhin takes the audience on a historical and architectural tour of his beloved city Asmara, Eritrea, which is regarded as the most important center of rationalist architecture in Africa."
  
  
• Eritrea Multimedia: Image, Movie, and Sound Files Archive (Daniel Berhane, University of Greenwich, UK)
  This archive of downloadable image (JPEG), movie, audio and other files is part of a larger personal home page. Historical places (Asmara and Massawa) and events, as well as the contemporary, are featured.
  
  
• Eritrean Print and Oral Culture (Lwam Ghebrehariat & Joyce Tam, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada)
  A digital archive of book covers and selected excerpts from publications in the field of the Eritrean literature, culture, and history, with some online folktales in English and Tigrinya, as well as sound recordings of tales and proverbs.
  
  
• The Ethiopia-Eritrea Conflict of 1998 and Selected Historical Documents & Map (1891-1908) (Prof. Habte Ghebre-Ab, University of Cincinnati History Forum; via GeoCities)
  
  
• Ethiopic Script Omniglot: a guide to written language. (Simon Ager, USA)
  A very brief introduction to the script or fidel used in Ethiopia and Eritrea--especially for Ge'ez, Amharic, and Tigrinya; with a syllabary and related links.
  
  
• International Bureau of Education on Eritrea (UNESCO, Geneva, Switzerland)
  • Documents & resources on Eritrea (Reports and statistics)
  
  
• The Kebra Negast: The Queen of Sheba and Her Only Son Menyelek (I)...translated by E.A. Wallis Budge (1932). Internet Sacred Text Archive. (Christopher M. Weimer, September 2002)
  
  
• Dr. Richard Pankhurst Essay Collection on Ethiopia and Eritrea in History (via Civic Webs Virtual Library, USA)
  • "A History of early twentieth century Ethiopia" (1997). Originally published in the Addis Tribune newspaper, January-May 1997.
  • "History of northern Ethiopia -- and the establishment of the Italian colony of Eritrea" (1999). Originally published in the Addis Tribune newspaper on February 19, 1999.
  • "A brief history of trade and business in Ethiopia from ancient to modern times" (1999). Originally published in the Addis Tribune newspaper in June 1999.
  • "Ethiopia across the Red Sea and Indian Ocean" (1999). Originally published in the Addis Tribune newspaper in May 1999.
  • See also: Addis Tribune. (Online)--Archive of Articles, 2000-2004
  
  
• University of Asmara, Eritrea