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 ...

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 ...

Above all, the Axum Obelisk remains a point of great pride for the Ethiopian people. The government's angry new rhetoric reflects the deep wounds that the original theft of the obelisk created here.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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. The 80-foot piece of carved granite was ...

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.

The Obelisk of Axum, built around 1,700 years ago, was 24-metres (78 feet) high and weighed around 160 tons. It was looted from Ethiopia on the orders of fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.

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.