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 ...

Cleopatra’s Needle being transported from the Hudson in 1880 (all photographs of the exhibition by the author for Hyperallergic) When Cleopatra’s Needle was commissioned by Pharaoh Thutmose III around ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Apparently Egypt is starting to get jealous of Greece and wants to repatriate Cleopatra’s Needle, the trophy of cultural dominance granite stele that’s been festooning Central Park since 1881. Too bad ...

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