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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Addis Ababa — Various individuals and organizations have pledged to give over 10 million birr to support the return of Axum Obelisk, scheduled to return home from Italy beginning end of this month.

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - Addis Ababa on Wednesday urged the international community to put pressure on Rome to return the Axum obelisk, looted from Ethiopia by the Italian army under former dictator ...

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, 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 ...