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Italy Returns Stolen Obelisk To Ethiopia

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A cyclopean task will put to an end a decades-long diplomatic dispute between Italy and Ethiopia over a looted obelisk, according to a bilateral agreement signed last week in Rome.

 

Signed by Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin and Italian Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Alfredo Mantica, the deal set up the final details over the transport of a 160-ton granite stele from Rome to the city of Axum.

 

full article at Discovery

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Firstly, I hope the Ethiopians will take care of it and not let it rot away!

 

Secondly, now maybe they can get the British to return all they looted to Greece!

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