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Author : Charles Edward Moldenke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Obelisks
ISBN : HARVARD:32044020292215
Author : Bob Brier
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781474242943
In the half-century between 1831 and 1881 three massive obelisks left Egypt for new lands. Prior to these journeys, the last large obelisk moved was the Vatican obelisk in 1586 – one of the great engineering achievements of the Renaissance. Roman emperors moved more than a dozen, but left no records of how they did it. The nineteenth-century engineers entrusted with transporting the obelisks across oceans had to invent new methods, and they were far from certain that they would work. As the three obelisks, bound for Paris, London and New York, sailed towards their new homes, the world held its breath. Newspapers reported the obelisks' daily progress, complete with dramatic illustrations of the heroic deeds of the engineers and crews struggling under nearly impossible conditions. When the obelisks finally arrived safely in their new homes, bands played Cleopatra's Needle Waltz and silver obelisk pencils dangled from fashionable ladies' necks. This turbulent era, caught up in obelisk mania, is recreated by Bob Brier in all its glory. Amid astounding tales of engineering dexterity and naval endurance, the individuals involved in transporting the obelisks and receiving them in their future homes are brought to life through their letters and diaries, newspaper articles and illustrations. Written by a renowned Egyptologist and author, this compelling book will fascinate all those interested in Egypt, its iconic monuments and the history of great endeavour.
Author : Anne Mustoe
Publisher : Random House
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-31
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780753547809
It was a blustery April morning on the Thames Embankment in London when Anne Mustoe set out on a phenomenal lone cycle ride - to the original site of Cleopatra's Needle at Heliopolis in Egypt. Leaving behind home comforts, she set herself the challenge of travelling close to water wherever possible - via the Seine and the Rhone, then alongside the Burgundy canal, the Po and the Venetian Lagoon. Before she would reach her final waterway - the evocative Nile - Ms Mustoe would encounter the dusty yet beguiling Near East: Turkey, Syria, the Lebanon and finally Egypt itself. Anne Mustoe weaves a story of exquisite detail laced with the understated humour that has become her hallmark.
Author : Sir Erasmus Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Ancient Egypt
ISBN : OXFORD:302078589
Author : James King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Cleopatra's Needle (London, England)
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CR59886781
Author : James King (vicar of St. Mary's, Berwick-upon-Tweed.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600081530
Author : Martina D'Alton
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Cleopatra's Needle (New York, N.Y.)
ISBN : 9780870996801
This delightful book tells the story of how Cleopatra's needle, the popular Egyptian obelisk that is now located in Manhattan's Central Park, came to New York in January of 1881.-- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
Author : William Penman Lyon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590631204
Author : Sir William James Erasmus Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000704313
Author : Henry H Gorringe
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780557000906
Author : Steven Siebert
Publisher : Forge Books
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2000-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466807570
Dan Rawlins, a world-famous archaeologist working out of New York's Metropolitan Museum, asks his assistant to find half of an Egyptian ankh in the museum's collection. But she disappears, only to turn up murdered. The relic is nowhere to be found. Meanwhile, Jacinda El-Bahri, a Mossad agent, is on the run in Cairo after stealing the other half of the ankh from a powerful terrorist. Known as Salameh, he plans to use the relic's incredible energy to unleash a power of biblical proportions. Across three continents and three thousand years, the struggle to reunite the ancient artifacts rages. And Dan and Jacinda, caught in the throes of an ancient evil, may be the only hope for the modern world. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Arthur Sketchley (pseud. [i.e. George Rose.])
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000670925
Author : John Adam Weisse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Freemasonry
ISBN : EHC:148101001832T
Author : Elbert Eli Farman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Egypt
ISBN : COLUMBIA:AR01395572
Author : James King (Clergyman)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Cleopatra's Needle
ISBN : OXFORD:302078597