Ethiopia (10)

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http://www.addistribune.com/Archives/2002/07/05-07-02/Technical.htm
A Technical Report of 1971 Considered Open in a new browser window
   From Addis Tribune, the story of the Aksum Obelisk looted by Fascist Italy in 1937, and not returned in accordance with the Italian Peace Treaty of 1947 and the bilateral Ethio-Italian Obelisk agreement of 1997, has many chapters.
   http://www.addistribune.com/Archives/2002/07/05-07-02/Technical.htm
http://www.sfu.ca/archaeology/dept/fac_bio/dandrea/adi.htm
Adi Ainawalid Open in a new browser window
   Brief description of an ethnoarchaeological research project in the Ethiopian Highlands. Features map and photographs of fieldwork.
   http://www.sfu.ca/archaeology/dept/fac_bio/dandrea/adi.htm
http://www.hp.uab.edu/image_archive/um/umn.html
Ancient Horn of Africa: Axum Open in a new browser window
   Images and discriptiond of artifaces and sites.
   http://www.hp.uab.edu/image_archive/um/umn.html
http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/phillips/index.html
Combating the destruction of Ethiopia's archaeological heritage... continued Open in a new browser window
   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.
   http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/phillips/index.html
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/aksu/hd_aksu_1.htm
Foundations of Aksumite Civilization and Its Christian Legacy (1st–7th century A.D.) Open in a new browser window
   Images, maps, and text describing Aksum.
   http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/aksu/hd_aksu_1.htm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15401398/
Lucy Fossil Cleared for U.S. Tour Open in a new browser window
   MSNBC article reports that Ethiopia will send 2-million-year-old 'Lucy’ to the Houston Museum of Natural Science in 2007.
   http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15401398/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,12576,1464195,00.html
Obelisk Returned to Ethiopia After 68 Years Open in a new browser window
   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.
   http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,12576,1464195,00.html
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/652/heritage.htm
Older than Egypt is Ethiopia Open in a new browser window
   From Al-Ahram, Ethiopia, the very cradle of mankind, the material evidence of its ancient civilisation alone attests to its former glory.
   http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/652/heritage.htm
http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/11/04/stone_kitchen031104
Researchers dig up earliest 'butcher shop' Open in a new browser window
   From CBC, anthropologists working in Ethiopia say they've found the earliest direct evidence of a stone tool "kitchen," dating back 2.6 million years.
   http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/11/04/stone_kitchen031104
http://www.ethioembassy.org.uk/fact%20file/a-z/Looted%20Treasure/The%20Axum%20Obelisk.htm
The Axum Obelisk Open in a new browser window
   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.
   http://www.ethioembassy.org.uk/fact%20file/a-z/Looted%20Treasure/The%20Axum%20Obelisk.htm

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