An Ethiopian tablet sealed inside an altar in London’s Westminster Abbey should be returned to its home country, say abbey officials, setting in motion the possible restitution of the sacred object.

Carved wooden tabot has been at Abbey since British forces looted it at Battle of Maqdala in 1868 Westminster Abbey has agreed “in principle” to returning a sacred tablet to the Ethiopian Orthodox ...

George Carey, a former Archbishop of Canterbury, has told The Art Newspaper that he is “astonished and saddened” that Westminster Abbey is refusing to return a sacred tabot to Ethiopia. For the ...

Dr Jacopo Gnisci urges British Museum to send back 11 more of sacred relics it holds in private after he found another online Max Stephens is The Telegraph’s International Crime Correspondent. He has ...

Orthodox demand that British give back all looted sacred items. The return to Ethiopia of a 400-year-old tabot, a sacred replica of the Ark of the Covenant, sparked celebrations in the traditionally ...

The story of the "Edinburgh" Tabot, or Ethiopian Representation of the Ark of the Covenant, soon to be returned to Ethiopia, began with Emperor Tewodros's suicide at his mountain fortress of Maqdala ...