Italy Prepares to Return Prized Ethiopian Obelisk
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Italy finally looks set to heal a feud  with Ethiopia by returning one of its most cherished relics,  the obelisk of Axum, taken by fascist invaders almost 70 years  ago.
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Ethiopia's president asks the Queen for the remains of a prince who died in Britain more than 100 years ago.
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Confusion surrounds the brief return of a statue of  Belgian colonial king Leopold II in the DR Congo capital, Kinshasa.
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A statue of the notorious former Belgian colonial king Leopold II is re-erected in the DR Congo capital, Kinshasa.
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Somalia's government vowed on Saturday  to bring to justice militiamen who exhumed hundreds of  skeletons from an Italian colonial-era cemetery and dumped them  near Mogadishu's airport.
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France is to hand over to Egypt a lock of hair said to belong to the mummy of Ramses II that was put on sale on the Internet last year, French officials said Monday.
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Italy's nuclear waste is to be sent abroad for disposal, a company tasked with managing the waste saidhere on Saturday.
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A modest archaeological museum in Aidone, Sicily, is heralding the return of two sixth-century B.C. marble sculptures.
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Italy has asked the New York collector Shelby White to consider returning more than 20 ancient artifacts that it argues were illegally mined from its soil.
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Italian police have recovered an ancient Greek temple dug up in southern Italy by a construction crew who had dumped or looted the prized artifacts and begun to pour cement over the ruins, authorities said Tuesday.
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Sixty-one years after Italy's fascist dictator Benito Mussolini was summarily executed, one of his grandsons has demanded that his remains be exhumed and an official post-mortem carried out.
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Talks between Italy and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles over 52 art works that Rome says were looted have hit an impasse after the museum said it was prepared to return only half of them.
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UK officials attempt to obtain access to the site where five Britons were kidnapped in Ethiopia.
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Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, one of   several top U.S. museums accused of having looted antiquities   from Italy, on Thursday became the first to hand over suspect   artifacts to Rome.
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Greece vowed Thursday to reclaim the country's plundered heritage after two sculptures were returned by the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Ethiopia is a perilous place to be an Abyssinian lion - so perilous that an Italian aid group brought two orphaned cubs to  the Italian Embassy, where the wife of a diplomat has been caring for them  inside a fenced garden.
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The world's most expensive truffle returned to Italy to be buried on Saturday.