Obelisks
There are 32 Egyptian obelisks globally, of which only eight are found in Egypt next to the stone obelisks, and what can be restored is now underway.
Egyptian obelisks outside Egypt, numbering 24
France: Four of the most famous of them are the Concorde obelisk, and we talked about it previously, 22.55 m and weighing 250 tons, one in the middle of the square of Notable, moved with Napoleon during the French campaign, the second in Vincennes, and the third in Arles
Italy: Only 13 Roman obelisks have 8 obelisks, the most famous of which is the “Latranis” obelisk dating back to the era of Thutmose III /
Thutmose IV is 32.18 meters tall, brought by
To Rome Constantius II in 357 AD to decorate
By the Square of Maximus, it was found in 3 separate parts and regained its strength with a length of fewer than four meters than it was. Its original place is the Temple of Karnak, and it was placed in the square of San Giovanni near the Lateran Palace after its repair.
Obelisk “Vatican”, which dates back to the era of King Amenhotep
The second, 25.37 meters high, was located in
Heliopolis Qom was taken to Rome by the emperor
In the year 38 AD, Caligula is placed in Spina, and it is now located in the Vatican Square (Saint’s Square.
Peter) by order of Pope Sixtus V.
“Villamino” obelisk This obelisk dates back to the era of City I /
Ramses II is currently 23.20 meters high.
Augustus Caesar brought it in the year 10 AD to be placed in
Maximus Square and placed at its base statues of lions
In the year 1818 AD.
The “Solari” obelisk, which belongs to Basmatic I and its current height is 21.79 meters, was brought to Rome by August Caesar from Heliopolis in 10 AD. It is now located in Palazzio Montecitorio Square in Rome since 1792.
The “Minerview” obelisk belongs to King Ibris (Wah Ibra), the fifth king of the Sixteenth Dynasty, and the obelisk is currently 5.47 meters high. The emperor brought it.
To be placed near the Temple of Isis in Rome, Diocletian was re-erected in 1667 by Pope Alexander on an elephant-shaped pedestal behind the Temple of Pancheon. Obelisk “Dogali” belongs to King Ramses II.
Its height is 6.34 meters, and it was transported to the Isis temple in Italy.
It is currently placed as a monument to the Battle of Dougall
Abyssinia
The “Mattianua” obelisk, which also belongs to Ramses II and its height is 2.68 meters in the Villa of Clementana in Italy, the stele “Maciotio” Ramses II, the square of the Rotunda, brought from Heliopolis, is the sister of the “Minerview” obelisk, and Pope Clement IX transported it behind the Pantheon temple in Rome 1711 AD.
Poland: One obelisk on loan from the Berlin Museum
Turkey: One obelisk, Istanbul, called Dikili Tach, and it dates back to Tuthmosis the Third, 28.95 AD, in the Horse Square near the Sultan Ahmed Mosque in Istanbul, and it was transported from Egypt by the Roman Emperor Theodosius I.
United Kingdom: 4 obelisks, the most important of them given by Wali
Egypt at that time Muhammad Ali Pasha in 1831
For Sir Nelson’s victory over Napoleon the French in the Battle of the Nile, its height reached 20.78 meters. The obelisk remained in Alexandria until the year 1887, when Sir William James Erasmus Wilson, the Englishman, took it to London for more than £ 10,000. It was an enormous sum at that time, and the obelisk arrived in London.
On January 21, 1878 AD. And next to it was placed two lions in the shape of a Sphinx, on September 4, 1917, and during the First World War, the obelisk was damaged as a result of a bomb falling from a German plane near the obelisk, and the damage still exists until now.
The United States: One obelisk (New York) and the daughter of Khedive Ismail donated it to America at the request of Khedive Ismail after the opening of the Suez Canal, and it was transported there in 1879, its height is 21.21 m, and its weight weighs
244 tons
A modern Washington obelisk was established in 1966 AD, with a height of (169.046 m)
Obelisks in Egypt
Obelisk of Ramses II, Luxor Temple, 25.03 AD
Obelisk of Senusret I in al-Matareya, 20.41 AD
Obelisk of Thutmose I in Karnak, 19.50 AD
Obelisk of Hatshepsut in Karnak, 29.56 m
City’s second obelisk in Karnak
Obelisk of Faiyum by Senusret I, 13 AD
The airport obelisk brought from Sunstone 17 m
Ramses II obelisk on Zamalek island
It is said that the number of obelisks in Sun Al-Hajar is 20
Obelisk
There were more than 24 obelisks in the Karnak temple, of which only three remained.
The highest standing Egyptian obelisk in the world
It is the “Lateran” obelisk located in the Italian capital of Rome, where it was 37 meters long until it was broken and rebuilt to reach a height of 32 meters and weighs 455 tons. It was made during the reign of King Thutmose III and finished in the era of Thutmose IV, followed by the one in the Vatican in Rome. 32 meters. And the highest standing stele inside Egypt is the stele of Hatshepsut, 29 m.
The oldest existing obelisk in the world
It is the obelisk of Senusret, and there is a part of the obelisk of King Titi I, one of the kings of the Sixth Dynasty, in Al-Matariyah, but it is destroyed.
The first theft of the old obelisks to re-establish them outside Egypt
It was at the hands of Ashurbanipal in 675 BC when he moved two obelisks from the stelae of Ain Shams, and it is believed that one of them bore the name of Ramses II and the other bore the name of Seti I.
The most famous stolen in modern times
It is the well-known stele of Philae Island, and it was stolen by Belzoni, where he rented workers and pulled them from the temple on wooden beams from palm trunks until they reached the shore of the island, where they were hidden for several days until the arrival of a private ship prepared for smuggling. It follows the British fleet, and the obelisk arrived in England in 1920 AD to be held in the yard of Wellington Palace in Dorset, which is the place chosen by the Duke of Wellington, who financed the robbery.
The strangest Egyptian obelisks
Abjeej obelisk in Fayoum or the dented obelisk and reaches a height of 13 m and is distinguished by that the top is not a pointed pyramid but rather its dent and a hole.
The most famous imitation obelisks in the form of Egyptian obelisks
Emperor Hadrian commissioned the Benaciano Obelisk to manufacture it in Egypt in honour of his beloved Anthony.
Obelisk of Salustiano
Obelisk of the Esquiline
The three obelisks are called Cleopatra needles
Concorde obelisk, New York obelisk and London obelisk.