Egypt
http://tinyurl.com/oedq7 (Bloomberg.com)
- More Re Hawass On The Ny Obelisk.
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- Plea From Hawass To Conserve The New York Obelisk
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- 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...
- 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
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 back. Zahi Hawass, head of Egypt's Supreme Council on Antiquities, wrote to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to protest the city's care of the 71-foot obelisk, a gift from Egypt to the U.S. 126 years ago, the state-run Egyptian newspaper Al-Akhbar reported. Hawass, who has waged a campaign since 2002 to recover Egyptian antiquities abroad, said weather is damaging the monument and the city should give it back, the newspaper said."
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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...