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 ...

Ah London. Land of sphinxes, pyramids and obelisks. Home of hieroglyphics. Final resting place of great pharaohs. Nope, we haven't gone off our rocker. Since the late 18th century London has been ...

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.

Mummies, obelisks, ancient tablets: London has got the Egyptian artefact game covered. But as well as ancient treasures – like Cleopatra’s Needle on Victoria Em ...

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 ...

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 ...