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- Howard University has a large collection of Religious Artifacts
that a certain benefactor willed to the University. Despite the
fact that the removal of such priceless artifacts has always been
illegal in Ethiopia, the individual was able to do it over a period of
many years.
- It is writtten somewhere that at the time Musollini was arrested by
the Italian people in Northern Italy, he had in his possessions
three gold crowns. These crowns disappeared during his arrest
and their where abouts remains unknown.
- In addition to the 250 priceless manuscripts the
Anglo-Saxon horde stole from Maqdala, there were certain
national treasures that were in the possession of Emperor
Theodros. Some of them were
- The Emperor's prayer cap
- His ring with the Imperial Seal,
- A gold drinking cup weighing 16 kilograms,
- His prayer tent. In addition to allthese there were several wooden
tabots and other religious artifacts the English stole.