Egypt
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.
- 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...
- 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,...
- 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"...
- 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
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 in 1879 by the Khedive of Egypt as a gesture of friendship and to promote trade. It was brought to America by William Henry Vanderbilt, the richest man in the world at that time. It is not clear who owns the obelisk -- the Federal Government, the City of New York or the Central Park Conservatory.
Sited a block away from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on a hill next to Central Park Drive, this magnificent artifact is rarely visited. In comparison to the Met, which is mobbed in good weather and bad, the obelisk stands largely unnoticed by the joggers and bikers rounding the park. It is very difficult for a visitor to the Met to exit the museum and view the obelisk. More concerning, the obelisk has been and continues to be damaged by New York City’s harsh weather and the corrosive effects of its pollution.
- 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...
- 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,...
- 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"...
- 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...