Tuesday, April 26, 2005

They'll build parking lots over anything these days

While finally returning a massive stone obelisk they stole in the 1930s, Italian scientists have discovered a series of ancient tombs under a carpark. The Italians were originally ordered to return the monument in the 1960s, but have procrastinated until now to actually do so, causing Ethiopians great frustration in the meantime. On the up-side, if they had returned it earlier, they probably wouldn't have had the technology used to detect the tombs. All's well that ends well, so the saying goes.

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