Egypt
- Photo For Today - Luxor Temple At Sunset
This was on New Year's Eve. My father and I had no idea that it was New Year's Eve until an Australian tourist pointed it out. It was a good place to be for a day which neither of us were intending to celebrate. The obelisk outside the First...
- Egypt Or Central Park: Where Does An Ancient Obelisk Belong?
New York Times (Francie Diep and Joseph Castro) With video. Is New York City’s weather destroying a 3,500-year-old Egyptian obelisk? That’s a question the city’s Department of Parks and Recreation is setting out to answer this summer as it conducts...
- Plea From Hawass To Conserve The New York Obelisk
drhawass.com With photograph. Since 1880 a beautiful obelisk commemorating King Thutmose III has stood in Central Park in New York City. This obelisk is one of a pair - the other one currently stands in Westminster in London. It has recently been brought...
- Heritage Management: New York's Central Park Obelisk
Ground Report (Paul Sterne) Here's one I missed from October - a call for the obelisk of Tuthmosis III on New York's Central Park to be moved to the safer and more appropriate environment of the Met. The obelisk was gifted to the United States...
- New Book: Obelisk: A History
PennState Live Brian A. Curran, associate professor of art history at Penn State, is a co-author of "Obelisk: A History," published in April 2009 by MIT Press. The illustrated book traces the fate and many meanings of obelisks -- giant standing stones...
Egypt
A Sliver of Ancient Egypt in Central Park
http://www.nysun.com/article/50597
The Dahesh Museum, at Madison Avenue and 56th Street, has extended the run of its outstanding exhibition Napoleon on the Nile to April 22. Napoleon's Egyptian venture was militarily disastrous. But the "savants" he sent along with his soldiers helped lay the foundation of modern Egyptology. Part of the Napoleonic booty was the Luxor obelisk (though it didn't go up in the Place de la Concorde in Paris until the time of Louis Philippe).
Egyptian obelisks have been swiped for centuries: They are rare and precious things. Only 22 remain in the world. Egypt still possesses five and Rome has 13. The Romans originally looted the obelisks, but the 16th-century Pope Sixtus V directed their present locations in the Eternal City. Istanbul, London, Paris, and New York each have one obelisk.
The obelisk behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in Central Park, is the only ancient Egyptian obelisk in the Americas. How many people are aware of how immensely more important it is than the Met's Temple of Dendur? At least most New Yorkers have stopped calling the obelisk 'Cleopatra's Needle,' in a silly attempt to "sex it up" by association with the actress Claudette Colbert."
The Dahesh Museum, at Madison Avenue and 56th Street, has extended the run of its outstanding exhibition Napoleon on the Nile to April 22. Napoleon's Egyptian venture was militarily disastrous. But the "savants" he sent along with his soldiers helped lay the foundation of modern Egyptology. Part of the Napoleonic booty was the Luxor obelisk (though it didn't go up in the Place de la Concorde in Paris until the time of Louis Philippe).
Egyptian obelisks have been swiped for centuries: They are rare and precious things. Only 22 remain in the world. Egypt still possesses five and Rome has 13. The Romans originally looted the obelisks, but the 16th-century Pope Sixtus V directed their present locations in the Eternal City. Istanbul, London, Paris, and New York each have one obelisk.
The obelisk behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in Central Park, is the only ancient Egyptian obelisk in the Americas. How many people are aware of how immensely more important it is than the Met's Temple of Dendur? At least most New Yorkers have stopped calling the obelisk 'Cleopatra's Needle,' in a silly attempt to "sex it up" by association with the actress Claudette Colbert."
- Photo For Today - Luxor Temple At Sunset
This was on New Year's Eve. My father and I had no idea that it was New Year's Eve until an Australian tourist pointed it out. It was a good place to be for a day which neither of us were intending to celebrate. The obelisk outside the First...
- Egypt Or Central Park: Where Does An Ancient Obelisk Belong?
New York Times (Francie Diep and Joseph Castro) With video. Is New York City’s weather destroying a 3,500-year-old Egyptian obelisk? That’s a question the city’s Department of Parks and Recreation is setting out to answer this summer as it conducts...
- Plea From Hawass To Conserve The New York Obelisk
drhawass.com With photograph. Since 1880 a beautiful obelisk commemorating King Thutmose III has stood in Central Park in New York City. This obelisk is one of a pair - the other one currently stands in Westminster in London. It has recently been brought...
- Heritage Management: New York's Central Park Obelisk
Ground Report (Paul Sterne) Here's one I missed from October - a call for the obelisk of Tuthmosis III on New York's Central Park to be moved to the safer and more appropriate environment of the Met. The obelisk was gifted to the United States...
- New Book: Obelisk: A History
PennState Live Brian A. Curran, associate professor of art history at Penn State, is a co-author of "Obelisk: A History," published in April 2009 by MIT Press. The illustrated book traces the fate and many meanings of obelisks -- giant standing stones...