Did earthquakes fell Aksum obelisks ?
Most of the obelisks at Alisum (Tigray, Ethiopia) are lying in pieces on the ground, as the Aksumite obelisk now in Rome had been before its removal to Italy. Preliminary inspection of the alignment of the ~larious fallen members makes it possible to identify a prevailing orientation. The historical...
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Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
1995-06-01
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Series: | Annals of Geophysics |
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Online Access: | http://www.annalsofgeophysics.eu/index.php/annals/article/view/4100 |