2001-08-12 04:00:00 PDT Aksum, Ethiopia-- It took dozens of elephants, winches and hundreds, if not thousands, of men to build the giant granite obelisks that dominate this village like skyscrapers.

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 ...

Ethiopia-- Abebe Alemyehu was 12 when he watched Mussolini's army storm into his northern Ethiopian hometown of Axum to carry off its ancient obelisk. Today, the 81-year-old will be out on the ...

A year ago, the Italian government dismantled the Axum Obelisk to return it to its rightful owner, Ethiopia. However, the obelisk is still lying in pieces in a military warehouse, near Rome's ...

Massive obelisks are among a few tangible remains of the past glory of Axum, an area lying in the ... Italy occupied Ethiopia from 1936-1941, but it was never a colony. “People outside of ...

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 ...

So in 1937, after his troops had invaded Ethiopia, Mussolini ordered them to bring back a 1,700-year-old obelisk from Axum, one of Ethiopia’s most important archeological sites. The obelisk was ...

Starting this month, the obelisk, which originally was erected as a royal grave marker in Axum, will be returned to Ethiopia in three pieces and reassembled. "Ethiopia has been waiting for so many ...

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 ...

The much talked about homecoming of the Axum obelisk will begin with the arrival ... held at the national palace in Addis Ababa, to help Ethiopia to cover costs related with the return of obelisk.

Italy will return to Ethiopia the first piece of the ancient Axum obelisk by the end of March, a government spokesman said Tuesday, ending a dispute over the religious monument taken to Rome 70 ...