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Obelisk Returned to Ethiopia After 68 Years

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/apr/20/italy.ethiopia

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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