This led me to respond, “If you do not appreciate the value of the obelisk, I hope it returns to Egypt.” The obelisk’s history in London dates back to Mohamad Ali Pasha, who decided to gift the ...

One of Cleopatra’s Needles, a 224-ton Egyptian obelisk enveloped in hieroglyphs, stands today for all to admire—not in Cairo but in London.

For objects that can weigh upward of 400 tons, obelisks have been remarkably peripatetic since they were created in Egypt’s New Kingdom during the second millennium B.C. There are 28 Egyptian ...

The demonstration, organised by UK-based campaign group Egypt Solidarity, saw activists tape up the mouth of one of the city’s iconic sphinx statues “guarding” an ancient Egyptian obelisk on ...