Lucy to finish tour

The 3.2 million years Ethiopian Fossil Lucy will return home in april 2013, the ministry of culture and tourism said.
 

Lucy and other heritages began the tour in the US as per the agreement sighed tin 2000 EC by the Ministry and Houston Museum of Natural Science.
 

Lucy's last exhibition will be organized in California from February to April 2013
 

A delegation led by Culture and Tourism Minster Abdulkadir has left here fore the US to take part in the exhibition
 

Lucy was discovered in 1974 as Hadar in teh Awash Valley of the Afar Depression

source The Ethiopian Herald

Comments from Admin of Addis Abol

Palaeontologists say that such invaluable heritage should not move from place to place, at least for two reasons.   one is that despite dozens of insurance is made to guarantee its safety, money could not substitute it. Imagine a plane crush along the way or some religious extremists destroy it  (as they say human is God's creature and this is misleading people) it is a huge crisis for us. The second one is that, it presence at home will have a magnetic effects for tourism. Tourists arrival would pay a lot as the visit, accommodation and the likes can charge them. Not only that they can also visit other sites. In addition, it is good for the image of the nation.