Cleopatra’s Needle being transported from the Hudson in 1880 (all photographs of the exhibition by the author for Hyperallergic) When Cleopatra’s Needle was commissioned by Pharaoh Thutmose III around ...

There are around 30 ancient Egyptian obelisks around the world, but which is the biggest? The tallest standing one is the Lateran obelisk, reaching a huge 45.7 meters (150 feet) tall into the sky in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rome has more Egyptian obelisks than any city in Egypt, including one at Piazza del Popolo - Alexander Spatari/Getty Most would be ...

The obelisk in Central Park, also known as Cleopatra's Needle, was formally dedicated on February 22nd, 1881 after a long trip involving ships, cannonballs, and the sharp corners put in place by the ...

A French Egyptologist says he has deciphered secret messages engraved on a 3,000-year-old Egyptian obelisk built during the reign of Ramses II. The 75-foot-tall stone structure once loomed outside a ...

On title page verso: Copyright by H.H. Gorringe, 1882; press of G.P. Putnam's Sons ... CHMNKRU copy 39088019929959 gift of Museum of the City of New York. CHMNKRU ...

Last week in this space, faithful readers will remember, I wrote about the once-grand, Egyptian-styled former police station on Rousseau Street in the Irish Channel. Faded though it now is, it’s ...