3443 x 5208 px | 29,2 x 44,1 cm | 11,5 x 17,4 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
settembre 1996
Altre informazioni:
All that remains now of Axum s past glories are the huge granite stelae obelisk some fallen and some still perpendicular. Made of single blocks of granite the tallest stood over 33 metre's high the largest monolith in the world. The biggest now standing is 23 metre's high. The second largest of the stelae was looted by Mussolini's troops in 1937 during his occupation of Ethiopia and stood for decades in the Piazza di Porta Capenamin in Rome near the Arch of Constantine. The 160 ton monument was finally returned from Italy to Axum in April 2005. It was shipped in three separate pieces at the cost of 6 million almost 8 million. The transportation company who carried out the task said it was the largest and heaviest structure ever transported by air.
