Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during press conference at the Mariinsky Palace in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, May 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Vitalii Nosach) ...

For thousands of years, Istanbul has marked the point where East meets West — a true crossroads of civilizations. Once known ...

Istanbul contains many ancient, Roman, Byzantine, Christian, Muslim and Jewish monuments, despite its development as a Turkish city since the 1920s. The most ancient monument is the Obelisk of ...

For thousands of years, Istanbul has marked the point where East ... Its centerpiece, a 3,500-year-old Egyptian obelisk, was originally carved to honor a pharaoh. What you see today is only ...

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The Egyptian obelisk in Place de la Concorde in Paris may conceal hieroglyphic messages intended for the elite of ancient Egypt. These inscriptions, visible only from certain angles, glorify Pharaoh ...

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.

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 ...

A French Egyptologist, Dr. Jean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier, claims to have discovered seven secret messages hidden within the hieroglyphic inscriptions on the Luxor Obelisk in Paris’s Place de la ...