Italian tourist look at the numerous obelisks in Aksum some 500 kilometers north of the Ethiopian capital Addis Abba in this Thursady Jan. 17, 2002 file picture. The collapsed obelisk in the foreground is believed to have collapsed shortly after it was erected. In 1937, what was then the tallest standing obelisk was carted off to Rome by Italian soldiers that occupied the country between 1936 and 1941.If the weather cooperates and 'Operation Restoration' goes to plan the top piece of the 1,700 year-old, 24-meter (82-foot) tall obelisk will be rolled out of the back of a giant Antonov-124 cargo plane on Tuesday April 19, 205 ending the dispute over the religious monument taken on the orders of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in 1937.(AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)