The Obelisk of Axum is an elaborately inscribed stone monolith, 78 feet from base to tip, that spent most of the 20th century in the middle of a busy Roman piazza. In the eyes of many an Ethiopian ...

The Obelisk of Axum is an elaborately inscribed stone monolith, 78 feet from base to tip, that spent most of the 20th century in the middle of a busy Roman piazza.

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 81 ...

Obelisks are among the few tangible remains of the past glory of Axum, about 530 miles north of Ethiopia’s capital in the shadow of the Adwa Mountains where Emperor Menelik II defeated the ...

The Obelisk of Axum, believed to be a funeral monument, stands outside the headquarters of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, a building that was originally intended to be the ministry in ...

For Ethiopians, he said, the ancient Axum Obelisk, looted from his country by dictator Benito Mussolini’s forces in the prelude to World War II, is a stolen symbol of national identity.

The obelisk is considered a symbol of African civilization and is a remnant of the ancient kingdom of Axum, which ruled the region from about 400 B.C. into the 10th century.

Italy has agreed to return a 1,700-year-old obelisk that dictator Benito Mussolini ordered seized from Ethiopia in 1937. The first of three pieces will be airlifted at the end of this month.

The obelisk, which is 24 metres (78ft) high, was taken from the holy city of Axum in northern Ethiopia when the fascist regime of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini annexed the African country in 1937.

The prized Axum Obelisk, a 1 700-year-old monument, was hauled off by Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini's forces after their 1937 invasion of the African country and now sits in front of the UN ...

Reporter's Notebook: Rome to Return Axum Obelisk to Ethiopia Italy and Ethiopia have resolved a dispute that began when a massive, 1700 year-old carved pillar was shipped out of Africa and installed ...