The 3,300-year-old monument has sat in the French capital's center for almost 200 years, but no one else noticed these ...

2. Once the obelisk began to pivot over the edge, three braking ropes attached to the monument's tip were pulled taut to control the fall. Were the ropes to fail, the granite obelisk would ...

The Luxor Obelisks are two monuments from ancient Egypt separated by the Mediterranean - one in Luxor and one in Paris - and ...

Watch live as members of the US Naval Academy's first year class attempt the annual climb of a granite obelisk coated in a thick layer of vegetable shortening in Annapolis, Maryland. Every year ...

As so often happens at the annual graveside service in Forest Lawn Cemetery, the frigid temperature was tempered by sunlight glinting on the granite obelisk honoring Fillmore and his family, bringing ...

The words of each adorn the limestone-and-granite obelisk in Academy Park. The words on the obelisk of another Greek philosopher, Diogenes, perhaps tell best the good that faculty do and the reason ...

The dramatic 45,000-pound, 20-foot granite obelisk listing the University's Philanthropists anchors Honor Court to the south. A series of impressive pillars, carved from 200,000 pounds of white ...

Question: How many finished obelisks are there in existence now? Were they cut from the same type of stone? Is there any indication about who the sculptors were? ~Jeunesse Answer: Well ...

A French Egyptologist uncovers hidden messages carved into Paris’s Luxor Obelisk, revealing secret propaganda from Ramses ...