Excavations in the Nile Delta have revealed multi-story tower houses, a granary, a ceremonial building, and eye-catching ...

Britain's King Charles watches a performance by ''The Herds'' during a nature and finance reception at Lancaster House in ...

More than 1,800 years ago, the thousands of pieces formed colorful frescoes that covered the walls of a luxurious villa in ...

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The Rosetta Stone, Egyptian antiquities and mummies, the Elgin Marbles, the Black Obelisk, the 2,000-year-old Lindow Bog Man, and the Sutton Hoo treasure, all within an incredible building housing ...

The obelisk was apparently commissioned by Ramesses II, who ruled Egypt from 1279BC to 1213 BC, and installed in Luxor. It was given to France by the sultan of the Ottoman Empire in 1830.

The London obelisk was raised in 1878, and this one arrived in New York three years later. The Obelisk’s trip from Egypt to New York was a complicated engineering feat. The delicate moving process ...

Cleopatra’s Needle in London is seen from the Thames. Credit: Ktulucommonswiki. CC BY SA 3.0 “Cleopatra’s Needle” evokes the romanticism of the famous Egyptian queen. However, like some click-bate ...

While traveling in Egypt between 1815 and 1819, an English collector, William John Bankes, took a fancy to an obelisk at Philae and arranged for it to be shipped to London.

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. The ancient Egyptians left behind a magnificent ...