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The fact that Ramesses II lived to around age 90 was, in itself, quite a feat in ancient Egypt. At the time "most people died well before their 40th birthday and he was on the throne for two or three ...

Ancient propaganda supporting Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses II has been found on a 3,300-year-old obelisk in Paris, as revealed by Egyptologist Jean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier.

The obelisk has four sides, and Olette-Pelletier noted that the side that faces the Seine (and was intended to face the Nile) shows Ramesses II "wearing the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt." ...

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 ...

He eventually discovered that the obelisk contained hieroglyphic cryptographies or hidden messages. These encrypted texts were often secret texts inserted into hieroglyphs or hidden in 3D carvings.

The obelisk was apparently commissioned by Ramesses II, who ruled Egypt from 1279BC to 1213 BC, and installed in Luxor. It was given to France by the sultan of the Ottoman Empire in 1830.

The Concorde obelisk was one of two red granite columns that Ramses raised outside Egypt’s Luxor Temple. In the 1830s, Ottoman Egypt sent one of them to France, where it’s remained ever since.

The Luxor Obelisk stands tall at Place de la Concorde in Paris’s eighth arrondissement. Constructed by the Egyptians more than 3,000 years ago, the stunning artefact is carved from red granite.