Egypt
This great old picture shows the worlds largest obelisk still half buried and of course with the crack which stopped the work on it thousands of years ago.
Today the obelisk has been cleared of the rubble and is a huge tourist attraction.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-10/ps-aoq101607.php
- 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...
- Feature: Working The Quarries Of Aswan
Heritage Key (Malcolm Jack) Quarries, often ignored, were a crucial part of Egypt. It was from these sites that the precious raw materials and minerals used in the construction of decorative monuments such as sculptures and obelisks was hewn thousands...
- Hawass Dig Days - Obelisks
Al Ahram Weekly Obelisks were signs of victory, and the inscriptions carved on them record the titles and achievements of the Pharaohs. The tip of an obelisk, called the capstone or pyramidion, was cased with gold, its brilliant shine connecting it with...
- More Re Aswan Obelisk Transportation Via Canal
The Philadelphia Inquirer The first clues emerged several years ago in Aswan, where Egyptian archaeologists were excavating an unfinished obelisk weighing more than 1,100 tons. They dug up part of what seemed to be a canal but had to stop because groundwater...
- 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"...
Egypt
Aswan more than meets the eye
This great old picture shows the worlds largest obelisk still half buried and of course with the crack which stopped the work on it thousands of years ago.
Today the obelisk has been cleared of the rubble and is a huge tourist attraction.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-10/ps-aoq101607.php
- 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...
- Feature: Working The Quarries Of Aswan
Heritage Key (Malcolm Jack) Quarries, often ignored, were a crucial part of Egypt. It was from these sites that the precious raw materials and minerals used in the construction of decorative monuments such as sculptures and obelisks was hewn thousands...
- Hawass Dig Days - Obelisks
Al Ahram Weekly Obelisks were signs of victory, and the inscriptions carved on them record the titles and achievements of the Pharaohs. The tip of an obelisk, called the capstone or pyramidion, was cased with gold, its brilliant shine connecting it with...
- More Re Aswan Obelisk Transportation Via Canal
The Philadelphia Inquirer The first clues emerged several years ago in Aswan, where Egyptian archaeologists were excavating an unfinished obelisk weighing more than 1,100 tons. They dug up part of what seemed to be a canal but had to stop because groundwater...
- 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"...