Tunnels found under Ethiopian obelisk

Paging Dr. Jones. Dr. "Indiana" Jones to the white courtesy phone please. From South Africa's IOL:

Experts have discovered a major network of underground funerary chambers and arches near the original site of an ancient obelisk in Ethiopia, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) said on Monday.

The discovery was made in the past week during a surveying mission in the east African country in preparation for the return of the final piece of the 1 700-year-old Axum obelisk from Italy, the agency said.

Teams from the Paris-based Unesco found the chambers using high-technology imaging equipment."

It is likely that some of the tombs identified through underground imaging are intact," said Koichiro Matsuura, Unesco's director-general, in a statement.