Standing ramrod-straight while others are bending due to structural wear, weather, and many years, the giant obelisks of Ethiopia’s Axum (or Aksum), sitting 1,000 kilometres north of Addis Ababa, are ...

Addis Abeba — The inauguration of re-erection of Axum Obelisk which stayed in Italy for 70 years will be colorfully celebrated in Axum town in Tigray regional State. Over 30 Italian delegations are ...

Ethiopians say they are shocked and dismayed that the return of their famed Axum obelisk from Italy has once again been postponed. Italy, which took the ancient monument from Ethiopia as a prize of ...

Paris - Ethiopia's famed Axum obelisk is to be re-installed at its original site next month, 70 years after the 1 700-year-old treasure was removed by Italian troops, the UN Educational, Scientific, ...

Ethiopians yesterday welcomed home the first of three giant sections of the 1,700-year-old Axum Obelisk, one of their most prized antiquities looted by Italy's fascists in the 1930s. Priests chanted ...

Ethiopian Minister of Culture Teshome Toga said on Friday that the remaining two segments of the 24m obelisk, believed to be at least 1700 years old, were expected to be transported back to the ...

Addis Abeba — The inauguration of re-erection of Axum Obelisk which stayed in Italy for 70 years will be colourfully celebrated in Axum town in Tigray regional State. Over 30 Italian delegations are ...