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Combating the destruction of Ethiopia's archaeological heritage... continued - http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/phillips/index.html
The Shire District Archaeological Survey Project returned to the Indasellassie region, north-western administrative zone of Tigray, northern Ethiopia in December 2003. Antiquity Vol 78 No 302 December 2004. |
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The Axum Obelisk - http://www.ethioembassy.org.uk/fact%20file/a-z/Looted%20Treasure/The%20Axum%20Obelisk.htm
Italy promised in writing - in the 1947 Peace Treaty - to return the obelisk to Axum and is closer than ever to doing so. Past technical difficulties have been overcome. |
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Older than Egypt is Ethiopia - http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/652/heritage.htm
From Al-Ahram, Ethiopia, the very cradle of mankind, the material evidence of its ancient civilisation alone attests to its former glory. |
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Obelisk Returned to Ethiopia After 68 Years - http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,12576,1464195,00.html
From the Guardian, the first piece of a huge 1,700-year-old granite obelisk was returned home from Italy to Ethiopia yesterday, 68 years after it was looted by the troops of the fascist Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. |
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Lucy Fossil Cleared for U.S. Tour - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15401398/
MSNBC article reports that Ethiopia will send 2-million-year-old 'Lucy’ to the Houston Museum of Natural Science in 2007. |