{"id":273884,"date":"2019-04-23T12:26:43","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T16:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiYWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmV0aGlvcGlhLWluc2lnaHQuY29tLzIwMTkvMDQvMjMvcmV2ZWFsaW5nLWJhcmFyYS10aGUtbG9uZy1sb3N0LWFmcmljYW4tbWVkaWV2YWwtY2l0eS_SAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-13T11:22:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T15:22:43","slug":"ethiopia-insight-searching-for-barara-a-lost-medieval-african-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/273884","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia Insight: searching for Barara, a lost medieval African city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia Insight\u2019s April 2019 investigation argued that a fresh reading of an old map, plus fieldwork, had likely found remains of <strong>Barara<\/strong>, a once-glorious medieval African city long faded from everyday maps.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-287574\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Prime-Ministers-office-releases-a-documentary-film-on-preserving-Ethiopian-heritage-1.png?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Ethiopia Insight: searching for Barara, a lost medieval African city\" \/>\n<p>The essay mixed archaeology, oral landscape, and archival stubbornness: medieval Horn urbanism was not a European import, and Ethiopian highland history holds cities that chronicles only half remember.<\/p>\n<p>Heritage stories matter under Abiy Ahmed\u2019s regime because bulldozers and modernization keep erasing neighborhoods and memory in the name of progress. Finding Barara is also an argument about what counts as worth preserving.<\/p>\n<p>As history reference, this is a high-value keeper: original reporting, named method, and a claim Horn readers can follow, debate, and revisit when developers redraw the ground.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ethiopia-insight.com\/2019\/04\/23\/revealing-barara-the-long-lost-african-medieval-city\/\">Ethiopia Insight<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revealing Barara\u2014the long-lost African medieval city&nbsp;&nbsp;Ethiopia InsightBased on a new reading of an old map, our fieldwork has unearthed what looks likely to be the remains of a once glorious city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":287574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Prime-Ministers-office-releases-a-documentary-film-on-preserving-Ethiopian-heritage-1.png?fit=696%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19fu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273884"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601056,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273884\/revisions\/601056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}