After years of delays, the Grand Egyptian Museum is officially opening next month. Here are seven highlights among its many ...

Hieroglyphics carved on the famous ancient Egyptian Obelisk in Paris ... It remains to be studied if the engravings and art depictions on top of the obelisk would have been visible to anyone ...

A French Egyptologist says he has deciphered secret messages engraved on a 3,000-year-old Egyptian obelisk built during the reign of Ramses II. The 75-foot-tall stone structure once loomed outside ...

The Luxor Obelisks are two monuments from ancient Egypt separated by the Mediterranean. One remains in position outside of Egypt's Luxor Temple, while the other was transported to Paris aboard a ...

One hundred and eighty-nine years ago, a spectacular 3,300-year-old Egyptian obelisk was erected in Place de la Concorde, Paris, after it had been gifted to France by the viceroy of Egypt.

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Hieroglyphics carved on the famous ancient Egyptian Obelisk in Paris could be propaganda ... It remains to be studied if the engravings and art depictions on top of the obelisk would have been visible ...

The famous ancient Egyptian obelisk in Paris may contain a series of hieroglyphic messages aimed at Egypt’s nobility that praise the pharaoh Ramesses II and say he was divinely chosen by the ...

The obelisk was apparently commissioned by Ramesses ... on the 3,300-year-old monument were meant only for the eyes of Egyptian nobility under specific circumstances, Dr Olette-Pelletier argues ...