A Technical Report of 1971 Considered 
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
Adi Ainawalid 
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
Lucy Fossil Cleared for U.S. Tour 
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/
Obelisk Returned to Ethiopia After 68 Years 
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
Older than Egypt is Ethiopia 
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
Researchers dig up earliest 'butcher shop' 
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
The Axum Obelisk 
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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