An Egyptologist in Paris has discovered secret messages on the capital's Luxor Obelisk. © Connie Ma from Chicago, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0 https ...

For almost 200 years, the monumental Luxor Obelisk in Paris has stood proudly in the heart of Place de la Concorde, an enduring symbol of Egypt’s grandeur. But beneath its iconic surface ...

Olette-Pelletier is an Egyptologist and, by chance, his daily walk took him past the Luxor Obelisk, the 3,000-year-old monument that towers over Place de la Concorde in central Paris. One day ...

Meanwhile in Egypt, souvenir hunters chipped away at it ... bomb detonated nearby in an air raid during World War I. The Luxor Obelisk in Paris, meanwhile, finds itself standing at the center ...

A researcher discovered hidden messages called hieroglyphic cryptographies on the Luxor Obelisk in France. Some of the hidden messages were propaganda asserting Ramses II’s power. Messages on ...

Located at Place de la Concorde in the city's eighth arrondissement, the Luxor Obelisk was made by the Egyptians more than 3,000 years ago. Carved from red granite, it was created under ...

This 1878 drawing by Emile Prisse shows the pedestal and two sides of an obelisk raised by Ramses II at Luxor. Today it stands at the Place de la Concorde in Paris. DEA/Album It wasn’t until the ...

During the global lockdown in 2020, Olette-Pelletier went every day in front of the Luxor Obelisk to "reproduce all the drawings" and began reading the hieroglyphs inscribed on its facade during ...

The Obelisk of Luxor In the Mechanics Magazine of July 12 and 19, 1834, is an interesting account of the arrangements made for the transport to France from Egypt, a country “once great and ...

A researcher discovered hidden messages called hieroglyphic cryptographies on the Luxor Obelisk in France. Some of the hidden messages were propaganda asserting Ramses II’s power. Messages on ...