An obelisk, with hieroglyphics, is in a field. A stone building is in the background. The photograph is in a book with a typed description. The description: "(Leviticus, vi: I.)--We give here a ...
The first record of obelisks in Egypt dates from 2,600 BC. These were small, only 10 to 12-feet tall, and none have survived. Around 2,300 BC, an obelisk was erected by Usortesen I at Heliopolis (the ...
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 ...
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