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Obelisk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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An obelisk is a tall, thin, four-sided, tapering monument which ends in a pyramidal top. Ancient obelisks were made of a single piece of stone (a monolith). The term stela (plural stelae) is generally used for other monumental standing inscribed sculpted stones not of classic obelisk form.
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Explores the science behind these ancient structures. ... Welcome to the companion Web site to the NOVA program "Pharaoh's Obelisk," originally broadcast on February 8, 2000. In the film, which is a part of the NOVA series Secrets of Lost Empires, NOVA brings together a team of Egyptologists, engineers, stonemasons,
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The obelisk enacts the same formula as the pyramid - maximum height for minimum base - but in different material, leading to different scale and architectural setting.
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CHAPTER 1 ; ... THE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN NAME FOR OBELISK; ... THE OBELISK IN ACTION;
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Obelisk of Ramses II on the left and a 3/4 view on the right. ... An obelisk is a monolithic stone monument whose four sides, which generally carry inscriptions, gently taper into a pyramidion at the top. The ancient Egyptians usually erected them in pairs and associated them with the rays of the Sun, which increase in...
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Texts in hieroglyphics and translations of the Egyptian's Obelisks. ... Egyptian Obelisk Website Directory; The Ancient Egypt Site; Amigos de la Egiptologia en Argentina; Egipto; My Blog;
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Italy promised in writing - in the 1947 Peace Treaty - to return the obelisk to Axum and is closer than ever to doing so. Past technical difficulties have been overcome. ... In northern Ethiopia a pit has been prepared to accommodate a vast obelisk that was looted from Axum by Mussolini in 1937. The obelisk - the only one...
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The obelisk was erected by Amenhotep II to his father Khnum-Re at a place called on the obelisk the Alter-of-Ra. Maked in red granite with 2,12 meters without pedestal. It was discovered in the ruins of a village in the Thebaid, in Elephantine;
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