The frenzy about the Utah obelisk strikes a nerve with me as an artist born and raised in the region, who does research-based work in and about landscape, and now lives in Miami — a place where I find ...

A 12,000-year-old T-shaped obelisk from the early Neolithic era features a carving of a human face. Discovered in modern-day Turkey at the Karahantepe site, it could be the first-ever carved depiction ...

The obelisks of Cleopatra are columns with pointed pyramidal tops of long carved rock, made by the ancient Egyptians. The Romans called the obelisks “Cleopatra’s Needles”, perhaps because of its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rome has more Egyptian obelisks than any city in Egypt, including one at Piazza del Popolo - Alexander Spatari/Getty Most would be ...

Piazza del Popolo in Rome, home to the Flaminian Obelisk since 1589. Photo: Miguel Medina/AFP Carved by Ancient Egyptians, today the Flaminian Obelisk towers over tourists in Rome's Piazza del Popolo.

A senior Egyptian archaeological researcher has said that several ancient Egyptian obelisks remain abroad after being smuggled during the Roman Empire and the French Campaign. Walaa Eddin Badawy, head ...