The 38m-tall (125ft) obelisk was built in 1845 by Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne, but has suffered ...

Art history doesn’t usually have much to offer in the way of practical, directly actionable lessons. But Sarah Parcak, a renowned professor of Egyptology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, ...

The Soldiers’ Monument on t Plaza, one of the nation’s oldest Civil War memorials, remains deeply cherished by many people in ...

The obelisk has not been properly studied since it was erected on the Kingston Lacy estate Fresh information is being obtained on the Philae obelisk, the stone monument that played such a key role in ...

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 ...