Yohannes Gebreselassie Shane

Since April 2024
Fellow at the Centre for Transcultural Studies

2018 – 2024
History researcher Tegray's history documentation project

2009 – 2018
Free lance scholar, affiliated lecturer Mekelle University, Ethiopia

2009 – 2017
Archaeology Aksum University, teaching and advising undergraduate and post graduate students

2004/2005 – 2009
Doctoral candidate in ancient Ethiopian history, with Thesis title-Kaleb, King of Aksum (^6th Century AD): Construction of his image in Ethiopian written and oral traditions.

2003 – 2004
DEA (Diplôme d'Études Approfondies) in Ancient African civilisations (History, Archaeology, History of Art), University of Paris

2002 – 2003
Maîtrise (Master of Arts) in African civilisations (History, Archaeology, History of Art), University of Paris

January 2001 – August 2001
Archaeology section head in the department of Culture, Tourism at Aksum

1997 – 2000
Tourism promotion officer in the Bureau of Culture and Tourism Tegray Regional State, responsible for production of tourism promotion brochures, booklets and videos

1992 – 1997
History teacher, Wukro Secondary School, Tegray, Ethopia

1991
Bachelor of Arts in History, Addis Ababa University
 

Caleb, King of Aksum (6th Century AD): Construction of his Image in Ethiopian Written and Oral Traditions

Inscribed Altar from Gobochela.^5th to^4th Century Bce, in: National Museum of Ethiopia (ed.), Guidebook: Historical Archeologiy Exhibition, Paris 2025, pp. 24-25. open access 

with Gabriala Hailemariam, Preliminary Report on an Inscribed Stone from May Omo in the Area of Gändäbta, Təgray, in: Epigraphic and Ethnohistorical Research: Online Reports from the Research Centre Ancient South Arabia and Northeast Africa, 20.01.2025. open access

Plague as a possible factor for the decline and collapse of the Aksumite Empire. A new interpretation, in: ITYOP̣IS, 1, Mekelle 2011, pp. 36-61.

The Icongraphy of Kaléb King of Aksum (^6th Century AD), in: D. J. Narendra Bondla , W. G. C. Smidt , Y. Furusaki , Ayele Bekerie (eds.), Cultural Landscapes of Ethiopia: Conference Proceedings, Mekelle 2015, pp.53-61.

New Data on ᵓGZ, son of a King. From a third century AD Unvocalised Gәᶜәz Inscription (Ḥәnzat, Tәgray), in: Annalesd'Ethiopie, 29, 2014, pp. 13-25.

Enno Littmann: An assessment of his legacy in the light of ongoing scholarly debates, in: W. G. C. Smidt and S. Thubuville (eds.) Cultural Research in Northeastern Africa: German Histories and Stories, Ityopis, Northeast African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, Special Issue No. 1, Frankfurt/Addis Ababa 2015, pp. 125-138.

L'alphabet éthiopien: une origine discuté, in Les Dossiers d'Archéologie (editor J. F., Breton), Jan-Feb 2017, Éditions FATON, Paris, pp. 36-39.

The Future of the Past: Towards Conservation of Undocumented Archaeological Sites and Uncatalogued Archaeological Materials in Tigrai, Annalesd'Ethiopie, 31, 2016-17, pp. 179-196.

Brief Notes on the Origin of Geˁez Numerical Signs, Journal of Afroasiatic Languages, History and Culture (JAAL), Vol 12, No. 2, 2023, pp. 265-297 [in Amharic with abstract in English]

Pre-Aksumite Inscribed Incence Burner and Some Architectural Ornaments from Addi Akaweh (Tigrai, Ethiopia), Annales d' Éthiopie, 2009, vol. 24, pp. 49-61. (with Gadja, I. and Hiluf Berhe)

Catalogue of the Survey of the Lake Hashenge Area, in: Gaudiello M and P. Yule (eds.), Mifsas Bahri a Late Aksumite Community in the Mountains of Sothern Tigray: Survey, Excavation and analysis, 2013-2016, BAR International Series, 2017, pp.28-39. (with: Gabriel B.)

New Readings and Interpretations on the Inscribed Stele from Ḥǝnzat (HS1), in: AETHIOPICA: International Journal of Ethiopian and EritreanStudies, 25, 2022, pp. 125-159. (With: Bulakh M.)

"An inscribed pre-Aksumite altar from Gobochla, Tigray, Ethiopia", in: Catalogue of the National Museum of Ethiopia, édition Soleb, 2024.

"The Public future of Ethiopian history: delineating boundary between history and received wisdom", A Proceeding of a National Conference on " Nation Building Process in Ethiopia: Historical and Civic Perspectives" Held in Mekelle on 30-31 March 2018, in press.

"The correspondences of Debtera Assaggahegn with Antoine d'Abbadie: Letters as sources of Ethiopian history", 19.04.-20.04.2024, Hendaye.

"The debarkation of King Kaleb's amphibious armada at the Red Sea coast of Yemen in 525 AD", 22.05.-24.05.2024, Workshop "Mapping the Red Sea", Centre for Transcultural Studies and Gerda Henkel Stiftung, Gotha.

"Reading Job Ludolphus' A New History of Ethiopia, (1684) in the^21st Century", 27.09.-29.09.2024, Workshop by Orbis Aethiopicus on the occasion of 400th anniversary of Job Ludolf, Gotha.