2001-08-12 04:00:00 PDT Aksum, Ethiopia-- It took dozens of elephants, winches and hundreds, if not thousands, of men to build the giant granite obelisks that dominate this village like skyscrapers.

As many as half a million people have descended on Ethiopia's sacred city of Aksum, according to its mayor, for a religious festival taking place for the first time since the civil war in the northern ...

Sometime towards the middle of November 1936 the Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini gave orders, in the style of an ancient Roman Emperor, that one of the great Ethiopian obelisks of Aksum ...

AKSUM, Ethiopia — Ato Gebrmedihin, who estimates his age at about 90, remembers when Italy’s invading army in 1937 looted this ancient city’s 1,700-year-old, intricately carved obelisk, on the orders ...

For Ethiopia's Orthodox Christians, the ancient city of Aksum is a sacred place, home to the Biblical Queen of Sheba and Ark of the Covenant. The ark is believed to contain the 10 commandments handed ...

Men walk in Lalibela Ethiopia and (below) the city of Gondar is famous for its palaces and castles like Fasil Ghebi, residence of the Ethiopian emperor Fasilidas and his successors during the 16th and ...

How was Aksum captured? Shelling by Ethiopian and Eritrean forces to the west of Aksum began on Thursday 19 November, according to people in the city. "This attack continued for five hours, and was ...

The Ethiopian government has said it is "surprised and saddened" by reports suggesting Italy may not be willing to return the Aksum Obelisk, removed from its original site in northern Ethiopia and ...