Rock-Hewn Churches, Lalibela - UNESCO World Heritage site. Includes photographs, maps and a description of the site. Harar Jugol, the Fortified Historic Town - UNESCO World Heritage site. Includes photographs, maps, a description of the site and a justification for inscription. Aksum - UNESCO World Heritage site. Includes photographs, maps and a description of the ancient city. Axum and the Ark of the Covenant - Provides a history of the city, information on the Ark and its final resting place, what can be seen and when to visit. Foundations of Aksumite Civilization and Its Christian Legacy (1st–7th century A.D.) - Images, maps, and text describing Aksum. The Monumental Stelae of Aksum (3rd–4th Century) - Article on the ancient city's most renowned surviving monuments, a group of memorial obelisks in a great variety of form and scale. Obelisk Returned to Ethiopia After 68 Years - From the Guardian, the first piece of a huge 1,700-year-old granite obelisk was returned home from Italy to Ethiopia yesterday, 68 years after it was looted by the troops of the fascist Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. Lucy Fossil Cleared for U.S. Tour - NBC News article reports that Ethiopia will send 2-million-year-old 'Lucy’ to the Houston Museum of Natural Science in 2007.