[nickcarraway]

The obelisks mark the graves of Axum's ancient rulers

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[Fitzcarraldo]

The Church of St. Mary (in Axum). The Treasury that is said to contain the Ark is in the background on the left.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/ark.html

[nuconvert]

Very interesting.
I posted an article on the obelisk a week ago.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1386485/posts

[nuconvert]

Ya just never know what you're gonna find " under a 1963 car park"

[rdl6989]

Axum ping.

[wouldilie]

I spent several days in Axum some years ago on a trip to the Blue Nile Falls at Gondar. The whole area was just bizarre. I rode on roads that the Egytians built that couldn't be built today with the machinery that we have. The Queen of Sheba's bath tub was really wild. The old churches that had been built by the Copt's and the Portugese were just amazing. The obolisk's were all over. There were 60- 70 in the town as I remember. The big ones had been destroyed or removed. The amazing thing was that most of the obolisks were single stone pieces that were from a quarry about a 150 miles away and they were carried over the mountains by primative people as single, intact pieces of stone. We couldn't do that today in that part of the world. A really strange place to visit with a history that is unbelievable.

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[HereInTheHeartland]

"under a 1963 car park,"

Shades of Cadillac ranch.

[Jumper]

Flown to Italy.... And it was within the past month that Italy could not return a stone? Hmmmm

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks for the pings, rdl6989 and Blam. Thanks Nick for the topic (and various others I've neglected to thank you for).

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[Dustbunny]

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