Ethiopia Demands Looted Treasure Return
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair is morally obligated to return to Ethiopia sacred objects and ancient artifacts looted by British troops more than a century ago, a leading scholar on Ethiopia said Tuesday.
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UK officials attempt to obtain access to the site where five Britons were kidnapped in Ethiopia.
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Comments SAS troopers are reportedly on the trail of kidnappers who snatched five British diplomatic workers in Ethiopia.Comment
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Metal icon Ozzy Osbourne and wife Sharon held a television plea for the return of their jewelry that was stolen from their Buckinghamshire country estate near London this past Monday morning.
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MEKELE, Ethiopia  - A search party scouring a remote northeastern region of Ethiopia looking for five kidnapped Europeans on Monday found two shrapnel-damaged vehicles that had belonged to the group.
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People returning home after storms and flooding in eastern Australia find their properties have been looted.
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Italy insisted on Thursday the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles must return all disputed art works in its collection and said the era when respected museums could get away with displaying looted antiquities was over.
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Ethiopians organized demonstrations outside the Italian Embassies in London and Washington, DC demanding the return of the Axum Obelisk, a 24-meter high ancient monolith or carved rock , BBC reported on ...
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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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A gold mask dating back more than 1,000 years to a pre-Inca civilization in northern Peru will be returned home next year after being turned in to police by a collector in Italy, a museum official said on Friday.
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Nearly 70 ancient artifacts that Italy says were looted and sold to galleries abroad have been retrieved will now go on public display in a Rome exhibition, the minister of culture said on Tuesday.
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Somalia's embattled Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Ghedi is in Ethiopia's capital for talks as he fights to retain his post.
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MOGADISHU -- A warlord urged Somalis yesterday to attack Ethiopian peacekeeping troops being sent to support the Somali government when it returns from Kenya this month, after last year's peace accord.
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MEKELE: A search party scouring a remote northeastern region of Ethiopia looking for five kidnapped Europeans today found two shrapnel-damaged vehicles that had belonged to the group.Comment
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MEKELE, Ethiopia -- At least a dozen European tourists were kidnapped in remote northeastern Ethiopia, a barren expanse of volcanoes and ancient salt mines where bandits and rebels operate, diplomats and local businessmen said yesterday.
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Police in Bangladesh have begun a massive search to recover two rare archaeological artifacts stolen from Dhaka airport, officials said on Monday.
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More than 600 Egyptian antiquities flew back to Egypt from the UK four years after they were stolen.