Egypt
Here's the description on Wikipedia, on the List of obelisks in Rome page:
- Egyptian Obelisk Amongst Rome Monuments Vandalised
BBC News (David Willey) Three historic monuments have been attacked by vandals in the Italian capital, Rome. In the first attack, a man was caught on security cameras chipping two pieces off a marble statue on a fountain in the Piazza Navona. Hours later...
- 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,...
- Photo For Today - Close Up Of Rii Obelisk In Rome
Updates: I have been playing catch-up and there are several stories still on my laptop which need to be posted. I'll be adding them over the next couple of days. Obelisk of Ramesses II Piazza della Rotunda, Rome See previous post for full details....
- Photo For Today
As usual the photo chosen for the day whilst I'm in Wales inevitably comes from my laptop, on which I keep only a few holiday snaps of the Egyptian deserts and a few more of Italy. In case you are fed up with desert shots here, instead, is a photo...
- 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
Photo for Today: Obelisk of Ramesses II
Obelisk of Ramesses II
Piazza della Rotunda, Rome
Just what a baroque fountain needs - its own Ramesside obelisk!
Piazza della Rotunda, Rome
Just what a baroque fountain needs - its own Ramesside obelisk!
Here's the description on Wikipedia, on the List of obelisks in Rome page:
Originally one of a pair at the Temple of Ra in Heliopolis, the other being the now much shorter Matteiano. Moved to the Temple of Isis near Santa Maria sopra Minerva. Found in 1373 near San Macuto and erected east of Santa Maria in Aracoeli on the Capitoline. Moved to the front of the Pantheon by Pope Clement XI in 1711 over a fountain by Filippo Barigioni.
- Egyptian Obelisk Amongst Rome Monuments Vandalised
BBC News (David Willey) Three historic monuments have been attacked by vandals in the Italian capital, Rome. In the first attack, a man was caught on security cameras chipping two pieces off a marble statue on a fountain in the Piazza Navona. Hours later...
- 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,...
- Photo For Today - Close Up Of Rii Obelisk In Rome
Updates: I have been playing catch-up and there are several stories still on my laptop which need to be posted. I'll be adding them over the next couple of days. Obelisk of Ramesses II Piazza della Rotunda, Rome See previous post for full details....
- Photo For Today
As usual the photo chosen for the day whilst I'm in Wales inevitably comes from my laptop, on which I keep only a few holiday snaps of the Egyptian deserts and a few more of Italy. In case you are fed up with desert shots here, instead, is a photo...
- 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"...