Egypt
- Photo For Today - Luxor Temple At Sunset
This was on New Year's Eve. My father and I had no idea that it was New Year's Eve until an Australian tourist pointed it out. It was a good place to be for a day which neither of us were intending to celebrate. The obelisk outside the First...
- 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,...
- Tracing Obelisk Weathering With Old Photos
per-storemyr.net (Per Storemyr) With some great photos and references for those who want to read more. Thanks to Per Storemyr for sending me the link. Historic photos are essential for research on monument weathering. With free internet access to archives,...
- The Anonymous Man At Brooklyn
Talking Pyramids (Vincent Brown) The re-wrapping of the mummy of the Anonymous Man was carried out in early February by the team from the Brooklyn Museum. We saw some of the live coverage of the re-wrapping here on Talking Pyramids. Today they’ve released...
- 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 - Thutmosis III obelisk, London
I'm back in Wales which means that I'm short of photos again.
Here's another expatriate obelisk, this time in London on the Victoria Emankment
overlooking the River Thames.
Known locally as "Cleopatra's Needle" it was actually erected by Tuthmosis III in Helipopolis.
Read more about it at historic-uk.com.
Vincent Brown has two great old photos of Alexandria obelisks on his site
at the following address:
Talking Pyramids
Here's another expatriate obelisk, this time in London on the Victoria Emankment
overlooking the River Thames.
Known locally as "Cleopatra's Needle" it was actually erected by Tuthmosis III in Helipopolis.
Read more about it at historic-uk.com.
Vincent Brown has two great old photos of Alexandria obelisks on his site
at the following address:
Talking Pyramids
- Photo For Today - Luxor Temple At Sunset
This was on New Year's Eve. My father and I had no idea that it was New Year's Eve until an Australian tourist pointed it out. It was a good place to be for a day which neither of us were intending to celebrate. The obelisk outside the First...
- 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,...
- Tracing Obelisk Weathering With Old Photos
per-storemyr.net (Per Storemyr) With some great photos and references for those who want to read more. Thanks to Per Storemyr for sending me the link. Historic photos are essential for research on monument weathering. With free internet access to archives,...
- The Anonymous Man At Brooklyn
Talking Pyramids (Vincent Brown) The re-wrapping of the mummy of the Anonymous Man was carried out in early February by the team from the Brooklyn Museum. We saw some of the live coverage of the re-wrapping here on Talking Pyramids. Today they’ve released...
- 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"...