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ETHIOPIA-ITALY-OBELISK
People gather in front of the site where the 1,700-year-old Axum obelisk is being restored on 04 June 2008, in Ethiopia. Italian soldiers carted away the 24-metre (78-foot), third-century AD granite funeral stela on the orders of then-dictator Benito Mussolini in 1937 during his attempt to colonise Ethiopia. Despite a 1947 agreement to return the obelisk, it remained in Italy until 2005, standing outside the Rome headquarters of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation.
AFP PHOTO/JOSE CENDON
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Axum, ETHIOPIA |
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AFP / Mediafax Foto |
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JOSE CENDON |
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4 Iunie 2008 |
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4368 x 2912 (1.39 MB) |
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