Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Matara is an archaeological site in Eritrea. Situated a few kilometers south of Senafe, it was a major city in the D mt and Aksumite kingdoms. Since Eritrean independence, the National Museum of Eritrea has petitioned the Ethiopian government to return artifacts removed from the site. However, they have thus far been rebuffed. Matara is the name both of a small village and of a supremely important Eritrean archaeological site, located some 136 kilometers southeast of Asmara, just past Senafe on the road leading south to the border with Tigray.