The museum has housed the 11 wood and stone tabots — replicas of the ... Abbey has agreed 'in principle' to return the Ethiopian Tabot sealed into the back of its Lady Chapel altar, we hope ...

After 150 years, Westminster Abbey is thinking of recovering stolen Ethiopian tabot, which represents the Ten Commandments and the Ark of Covenant. TALKS: Westminster Abbey could return the sacred ...

Ethiopian orthodox priests taking part in an annual ceremony at the Fasilides Bath compound, located in the city of Gondor, while carrying a tabot An Ethiopian tablet sealed inside an altar in ...

The return of the Holy Tabot tablet of 'Medhane'Alem,' a religious artifact central to Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity ... From the Benin Bronzes to the Rosetta Stone, the artifacts serve as ...

A Tabot, viewed by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church as a sacred likeness to the tablets on which the Ten Commandments were inscribed, sits inside the Lady Chapel in Westminster. The Ethiopian state ...

The decision to repatriate the wooden tabot comes as a growing number of museums worldwide have begun discussing steps to repatriate artworks looted during the colonial era. The Ethiopian artefact ...

At 8,000 feet, on the central plateau of Ethiopia, stand 11 churches, each carved from a single, gigantic, block of stone. No bricks, no mortar, no concrete, no lumber, just rock sculpted into ...

Hundreds of thousands of people streamed onto Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa from different parts of the country to escort the Holy Slabs, which is locally known as Tabot, on their way to the areas ...