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    • Inauguration of the Obelisk of Aksum
    Duration: 5'51"


    01:00:00:00 April 25, 2005 Arrival of the first segment at Aksum Airport : Celebration of the return

    01:00:09.08 April 25, 2005 Transport of the three segments of the Aksum Obelisk to the archaeological site

    01:00:16.12 June 11, 2008 – Archaeological site of Aksum, scaffoldings

    01:00.19.08 laying the first segment on tracks

    01:00:25.04 sliding the first segment

    01:00.30.07 lifting up the first segment

    01:00.40.09 placing the first segment on its base

    01.01.06.13 Engineer Tadele Bitul Kibrat, Ethiopian committee

    01:01.43.17 sliding the second segment

    01:01.48.24 lifting up the second segment

    01.01.59.16 placing the seond segment

    01:02.08.06 lifting up the third segment

    01:02.17.23 placing the third segment

    01.02.45.14 Computer generated image: site after completion

    01.02.53.28 September 4, 2008 - inauguration ceremony of the obelisk of Aksum

    01.03.10.10 Girma Wolde-Giyorgis, President of Ethiopia
    01.03.21.01 M. Mantica, Representaive of Italian government

    01.03.34.13 Mrs Françoise Rivière, UNESCO Assistant Director General of UNESCO for Culture and Francesco Bandarin, UNESCO Director of the World Heritage Centre receive an award from the Ethiopian Government

    01.03.51.03 Unveiling of the Stela 2

    01.04.05.03 Cultural show

    01.04.33.00 Soundbyte :M. Francesco Bandarin, Director of UNESCO World Heritage Centre

    01;05;17.03 Soundbyte : Mrs Françoise Rivière, UNESCO Assistant Director General of UNESCO for Culture

    01.05.51.17 End

    Publication Date 08 Sep 2008

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