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- 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...
- 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...
- 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"...
- 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...
- 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
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, then floated to Alexandria, where they fronted a temple dedicated to the deified Julius Caesar.
During the 19th century, the Khedive of Egypt, who governed as a viceroy of the Sultan of Turkey between 1879 and 1914, donated both obelisks to Western industrialised nations in exchange for foreign aid to modernise Egypt. The London obelisk was raised in 1879, and the other erected in Central Park in 1881. Since then it has been known as “Cleopatra Needle”.
During his last visit to New York, Zahi Hawass, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), said that the obelisk has been severely weathered over the past century and was not properly conserved and that no efforts have been made to conserve it. This led Hawass to write a letter to the president of the Central Park Conservancy and the mayor of New York City asking for their assistance in caring for the distinguished artefact. At the end of the letter Hawass warned that if the obelisk couldn't be cared for he would take the necessary steps to bring it home.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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"...
- 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...
- 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...