List of modern obelisks information

is a list of all obelisks built after the 16th century. See List of obelisks in Rome, List of Egyptian obelisks for some ancient obelisks. (Listed in date...

The city of Rome harbours thirteen ancient obelisks, the most in the world. There are eight ancient Egyptian and five ancient Roman obelisks in Rome,...

Egyptian obelisks. The list does not include modern or pre-modern pseudo-Egyptian obelisks, such as the numerous Egyptian-style obelisks commissioned by Roman...

pyramids and obelisks in his plays and sonnets. Ancient obelisks are monolithic and consist of a single stone; most modern obelisks are made of several stones...

For Lists of obelisks, see: List of Egyptian obelisks List of modern obelisks List of obelisks in Rome This disambiguation page lists articles associated...

Dynasty of ancient Egypt to transport obelisks from the quarry to their destination. Fifteen centuries later, the Romans used ships to transport obelisks across...

Egyptian Obelisks, The Religious Tract Society, London, 1926, reprinted 1990, p.160-165. Labib Habachi, The Obelisks of Egypt, skyscrapers of the past...

The Philae obelisk is one of a pair of twin obelisks erected at Philae in Upper Egypt in the second century BC. It was discovered by William John Bankes...

Obelisks (French: Obélisques de Louxor) are a pair of ancient Egyptian obelisks, over 3,000 years old, carved to stand either side of the portal of the...

antiquity List of modern obelisks List of Roman obelisks List of Roman spiral stairs List of Roman triumphal arches Iaat, near Baalbek, Lebanon Obelisk Rostral...

12694 The Obelisks of Nectanebo II are a pair of monumental obelisks that were found in Cairo but were originally located in the ancient city of Hermopolis...

white crown and offering vases to Atum and another unknown god. List of Egyptian obelisks Enmarch (2013), p. 21. Zecchi (2008), p. 373. Chaaban (1926),...

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. The institution...

Seattle; Museum of Modern Art, New York City; and Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, New York. Art critic Robert Hughes, writing on Broken Obelisk in 1971,...

side, names of the city and other places in the world are engraved in Latin characters and Arabic calligraphy, which are endowed with obelisks and are reference...

Encyclopedia Catalogue of stone obelisks Sati.archaeilogy.nsc.ru (in Russian) Arslanova F.Kh., Charikov A.A., "Stone obelisks of Upper Irtysh", Soviet...

the architecture and fountains of Rome, particularly the Piazza Navona and Piazza San Pietro, each of which had obelisks aligned with fountains. Hittorff's...

broken obelisk was left at its quarrying site in Aswan, where it still remains. Known as the unfinished obelisk, it provides evidence of how obelisks were...

that there are few obelisks and apparently no colossi inscribed for Seti. Ramesses II, however, was able to complete the two obelisks and four seated colossi...

and a huge bronze statue of Augustus. Vaults held up the roof and opened up the burial spaces below. Twin pink granite obelisks flanked the arched entryway;...

of the tallest obelisks in Rome (some 24 m high, or 36 m including its plinth). The obelisk was brought to Rome in 10 BC by order of Augustus and originally...

partial list of works in the Museum of Modern Art, and organized by type and department. This is a partial list of works in the Department of Painting...

are measured from the top of its base/pedestal up to its maximum height (including monuments with spires or obelisks). As of 3 November 2022, this table...

history of Israel covers an area of the Southern Levant also known as Canaan, Palestine or the Holy Land, which is the geographical location of the modern states...