ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Thousands of Ethiopians on Thursday cheered the long-awaited restoration of the 1,700-year-old Axum obelisk to its original site in the country's north. With great pomp, the ...

ROME, July 19 -- Italy's government decided today to send home an ancient obelisk looted from Ethiopia by Mussolini's troops in 1937 and end a long controversy over its presence in central Rome. The ...

Elias Wondimu has heard that Italian leaders want North America’s museums to hand back dozens of artifacts that came from Italian soil, and he’s not ready to argue about that. In fact, says Wondimu, a ...

2005-04-19 04:00:00 PDT Axum, 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 ...

ADDIS ABABA, April 8 (AFP) — After decades of wrangling and weeks of uncertainty, Ethiopia’s famed Axum obelisk will finally begin its journey home next week as the first piece of the 160-tonne ...

Feb 14, 2006 (ADDIS ABABA) — Ethiopia’s famed Axum obelisk, returned to the country in April after being looted by fascist Italy nearly 70 years ago, will be re-erected by the end of 2006, the United ...

Elias Wondimu has heard that Italian leaders want North America's museums to hand back dozens of artifacts that came from Italian soil, and he's not ready to argue about that. But, says Wondimu, a ...

AXUM, Ethiopia (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Ethiopians cheered on Thursday as a 1,700-year-old giant stone obelisk taken to Italy by fascist invaders in the 1930s was restored to its historic site ...

ROME — What Ethiopian Ambassador Mengistu Hulluka can’t figure out is why influential Italians even want the 80-foot carved granite pillar that stands, without any identification, at a smoggy Rome ...

AXUM, Ethiopia — A teenage Abebe Alenayehu watched Italian soldiers haul away Axum’s revered obelisk nearly seven decades ago and never thought he would live to see its return. But if the weather ...

It's been 64 years since Benito Mussolini unleashed his latter-day Roman legions against Ethiopia, an invasion that shocked a simpler world in the days before World War II. The Italians not only ...