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 ...
"Focuses on the Aksumite state of the first millennium AD in northern Ethiopia and southern Eritrea, its development, florescence and eventual transformation into the so-called medieval civilisation ...
ROME — Piece by ancient piece, Italian engineers are delicately dismantling an intricately carved obelisk in southern Rome and wrapping it for delivery to Ethiopia. In a move that sends a message to ...