Jean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier says he has identified seven sets of crypto-hieroglyphs on the 75-foot-tall structure, which France received as a gift in 1836 ...

Is this another piece of royal propaganda, or a secret code for the elite? Well, it's all a matter of perspective.

his daily walk took him past the Luxor Obelisk, the 3,000-year-old monument that towers over Place de la Concorde in central Paris. One day, while reading the hieroglyphs, the Sorbonne University ...

Some (perhaps all) of the new messages were hidden in the hieroglyphs themselves ... In particular, when the obelisk stood at the entrance of Egypt’s Luxor Temple, one of the messages would ...

Since then, the Concord (or Luxor) Obelisk has been on display to residents ... an Egyptologist and specialist in hieroglyphic cryptology at the Catholic University of Paris, there is a previously ...

The obelisk in Paris is actually one of ... the French Revolution in the 18th century. Both of the Luxor Obelisks feature hieroglyphic text carved in sunken relief on all four sides, spanning ...

During the global lockdown in 2020, Olette-Pelletier went every day in front of the Luxor Obelisk to "reproduce all the drawings" and began reading the hieroglyphs inscribed on its facade during ...

Ancient “propaganda” that was used to support the Egyptian pharaoh who is believed to be a major character of the Old Testament has been spotted in Paris, according to an expert.

Egyptian archaeologists have discovered tombs dating back to the New Kingdom period (1550–1070 B.C.) and identified the names ...

A researcher discovered hidden messages called hieroglyphic cryptographies on the Luxor Obelisk in France. Some of the hidden messages were propaganda asserting Ramses II’s power. Messages on ...