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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Axum - Ethiopia's 68-year wait for the return of a plundered national treasure is set to end on Tuesday, when a massive cargo jet flies the first part of the Axum obelisk from Italy to its historic ...

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

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 ...