Cleopatra’s Needle in Place on Graywacke Knoll in by the Metropolitan Museum of Art The anomaly of a wall of skyscrapers surrounding the verdant Victorian landscape of Central Park is matched by the ...

Visitors to New York’s Central Park have one less sight to see this summer, as the its 69-foot-tall Egyptian obelisk, popularly-known as Cleopatra’s Needle, is currently shrouded in scaffolding as it ...

After hearing about the recent installation of a temporary field hospital [tent] facility in Central Park, New York, due to the coronavirus pandemic, I could not help but think about the many New ...

The obelisk in Central Park, also known as Cleopatra's Needle, was formally dedicated on February 22nd, 1881 after a long trip involving ships, cannonballs, and the sharp corners put in place by the ...

Employing even keeled pacing and distinctively rendered characters, Gutman (the My Weird School series) chronicles how Cleopatra’s Needle became a New York City landmark in this delightfully ...

Archaeologists researching the ancient temple city of Heliopolis have made remarkable discoveries documenting intense temple construction activities in Ancient Egypt. Heliopolis, which means "City of ...

In the half-century between 1831 and 1881 three massive obelisks left Egypt for new lands. Prior to these journeys, the last large obelisk moved was the Vatican obelisk in 1586--one of the great ...

Governor Dennis Socrates and Puerto Princesa Mayor Lucilo Bayron sign the agreement transferring the management of Cleopatra’s Needle Critical Habitat to the City Government of Puerto Princesa. (Photo ...