Today Egyptian obelisks can be found in New York City, Istanbul, and Paris. ( Why this ancient 'King of the World' was so proud of his library. A pyramidion from an obelisk commissioned by Queen ...

Its centerpiece, a 3,500-year-old Egyptian obelisk, was originally carved to honor a pharaoh. What you see today is only the upper third of the original massive stone tower. The best look at ...

ANKARA . The Turkish president on Wednesday visited a replica of an obelisk from a famed site in Turkey over 10,000 years old that was added on the grounds of UN headquarters in New York.