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Westminster Abbey in discussions to return sacred Ethiopian treasure
The tablet, which is so sacred to the Ethiopian Orthodox church it cannot be pictured, was part of a haul of treasure taken by British soldiers after storming the Ethiopian fortress at Magdala in ...
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Ethiopia demands King Charles and British Army give back artefacts
British forces helped themselves to the treasures when Lt Gen Robert Napier defeated Tewodros II, the Ethiopian emperor, at his fortress in Magdala in 1868. This came after a conflict about the ...