In 1995, a NOVA team dared to demonstrate firsthand what has mystified historians for millennia: how to raise an obelisk using only materials and techniques the ancient Egyptians might have used.
Art history doesn’t usually have much to offer in the way of practical, directly actionable lessons. But Sarah Parcak, a renowned professor of Egyptology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, ...
Carved for an Egyptian pharaoh and shipped to the Roman capital, the Obelisk of Theodosius has stood for over sixteen hundred ...
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 ...
Between the ruined remains of the Third and Fourth Pylons lies the narrow court of Amenophis III. He built the Third Pylon, while Tuthmosis I erected the older Fourth Pylon, which was the front of the ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 12,000-year-old T-shaped obelisk from the early Neolithic era features a carving of a human face. Discovered in modern-day ...
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 ...