Egypt
New York Times (Francie Diep and Joseph Castro)
With video.
- More Re Hawass On The Ny Obelisk.
Ahram Online In New York City's Central Park stands a 21-metre-tall red granite obelisk carved during the 18th Dynasty to commemorate King Tuthmose III, grandfather of King Tutankhamun. This obelisk is one of a pair originally erected in Heliopolis,...
- 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...
- New York Denies Neglect Of Obelisk
http://tinyurl.com/oedq7 (Bloomberg.com) "The New York Parks Department rejects claims by an Egyptian official that the city is neglecting the 3,700-year-old Cleopatra's Needle in Central Park and refuses to address his demand to give the obelisk...
- An Obelisk For Central Park
http://tinyurl.com/e3yul A fascinating article written by Edmund S. Whitman on the Travellers in Egypt website, telling the full story of the Egyptian obelisk that stands in New York's Central Park: "Shortly after the Suez Canal Inaugural of 1869,...
- Obelisk Of Thutmosis Iii
Dr. Zahi Hawass recently sent a letter to the Central park conservancy and the Mayor of New York concerned about the condition of the obelisk of Thutmosis III in New York's Central park. Dr. Hawass claims the monument is not properly being looked...
Egypt
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 a “weathering study” of Cleopatra’s Needle, which was given to the United States government by Egypt as a gift to commemorate the opening of the Suez Canal. The obelisk has stood in Central Park since 1881.
In January, the minister of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, Zahi Hawass, wrote that the obelisk’s stay in New York had worn away its hieroglyphs and that the city’s acid rain was gradually destroying it. He threatened to “take the necessary steps to bring this precious artifact home.”
But Egypt is not necessarily the safest place for precious artifacts these days.
- More Re Hawass On The Ny Obelisk.
Ahram Online In New York City's Central Park stands a 21-metre-tall red granite obelisk carved during the 18th Dynasty to commemorate King Tuthmose III, grandfather of King Tutankhamun. This obelisk is one of a pair originally erected in Heliopolis,...
- 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...
- New York Denies Neglect Of Obelisk
http://tinyurl.com/oedq7 (Bloomberg.com) "The New York Parks Department rejects claims by an Egyptian official that the city is neglecting the 3,700-year-old Cleopatra's Needle in Central Park and refuses to address his demand to give the obelisk...
- An Obelisk For Central Park
http://tinyurl.com/e3yul A fascinating article written by Edmund S. Whitman on the Travellers in Egypt website, telling the full story of the Egyptian obelisk that stands in New York's Central Park: "Shortly after the Suez Canal Inaugural of 1869,...
- Obelisk Of Thutmosis Iii
Dr. Zahi Hawass recently sent a letter to the Central park conservancy and the Mayor of New York concerned about the condition of the obelisk of Thutmosis III in New York's Central park. Dr. Hawass claims the monument is not properly being looked...