The image, part of a new exhibition titled Ethiopia Through the Eyes of Diplomats: Togetherness, Celebrating Diversity and Harmony, was captured by a foreign envoy. Its bleak composition — a weathered ...

Axum - Ethiopia on Thursday unveiled its famed Axum Obelisk after more than three years of work to re-erect the 150-ton stelar plundered by fascist Italy 70 years ago and returned only in 2005. Prime ...

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The first section of a 1,700-year old stone obelisk looted by Italy nearly 70 years ago has arrived back in Ethiopia. The Axum obelisk is regarded as one of Ethiopia's national religious treasures. An ...

where the obelisk will be returned to. More than 60 years ago Benito Mussolini’s soldiers marched into Axum, in northern Ethiopia and made off with one of the country’s most prized monuments.

Addis Abeba – The ancient historical and archeological sites such as the UNESCO inscribed obelisks of Axum, the palace of Queen Sheba, and the tombs of king Kaleb that made the city of Axum, the ...

has declared that his country is willing to lengthen the runway at Axum airport to allow the return of the Axum obelisk from Rome. The obelisk was looted from Ethiopia by Mussolini in 1937 and was ...

Standing ramrod-straight while others are bending due to structural wear, weather, and many years, the giant obelisks of Ethiopia’s Axum (or Aksum), sitting 1,000 kilometres north of Addis Ababa ...

Axum (Aksum) is the capital city of ancient and holy Ethiopia. Today, Axum is located in the northeastern portion of what is now Ethiopia, on the horn of Africa. Axum was a powerful, urban Iron Age ...

Ethiopians say they are shocked and dismayed that the return of their famed Axum obelisk from Italy has once again been postponed. Italy, which took the ancient monument from Ethiopia as a prize ...