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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

On Friday, singers and dancers at the Ethiopian Embassy celebrated the May 2 return of the Axum Obelisk to Ethiopia from Italy, where it was taken in 1937 during the Italian occupation of Ethiopia.

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 ...

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.

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.

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, 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.