Orthodox Christian churches and mosques dot the landscape of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's capital and the country's largest city. Its name means "New Flower." The city is home to Addis Ababa University (founded in 1950), the National Library and Archives, palaces of former emperors and the National Museum of Ethiopia, which houses the famous prehistoric fossil skeleton of Lucy. Lucy was a hominid, or human-like creature, that lived more than three million years ago. The bones were unearthed in northern Ethiopia in 1974. At the time of the discovery, Lucy's fossil was oldest known skeleton of a human ancestor. (MIKE D. KOCK—GETTY IMAGES)