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Benito Mussolini's Losing Their Marbles-Greece

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After I watched “Losing their Marbles –Greece” it reminded me of the Axum obelisk, which was recently returned to its home country Ethiopia after 68 years. This obelisk was looted by fascist Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. There were Ethio-Italy war, in the late 19th century and Italy defeated by Ethiopian at Adwa, but the fascist Italy, invaded Ethiopia, again in 1935 and the war was lasted for five years. During this war, the Italian military controlled the northern parts of Ethiopia, and the Ethiopian different heritages were in the northern part of the country. When the Italian went back to their home they took different Ethiopian heritages, one of this was Axum obelisk. Even there is some Ethiopian historical heritages still found in

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