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The Obelisk of Piazza San Giovanni in Laterano is an ancient Egyptian red-granite obelisk displayed in the Lateran square in Rome. It was made for Thutmose III and completed under Thutmose IV, then transported from Thebes to Rome in antiquity. At more than 32 metres, it is the tallest ancient Egypti...

The Northern Obelisk of Hatshepsut is an ancient Egyptian red-granite monument at the Temple of Amun in Karnak, near modern Luxor. It was erected during the reign of Hatshepsut in the Eighteenth Dynasty and formed one of a pair of obelisks associated with the temple's sacred precinct. The surviving...

The Obelisk of Theodosius is an ancient Egyptian monument erected in the Hippodrome of Constantinople, now Sultanahmet Square in Istanbul. It was originally commissioned by Pharaoh Thutmose III for the temple complex at Karnak and bears hieroglyphic inscriptions celebrating his reign. Emperor Theodo...

The Obelisk of Ramesses II at Luxor Temple is a red-granite monument erected during the reign of Ramesses II in the Nineteenth Dynasty. It originally stood with a matching obelisk at the entrance to the temple; that companion was transferred to Paris in the nineteenth century and now stands in the P...

The Bust of Ramesses II in the British Museum is an ancient Egyptian granite portrait fragment of the 19th Dynasty pharaoh (r. c. 1279–1213 BCE), acquired from the Ramesseum at Thebes in the 19th century.

The Minerva Obelisk is a small ancient Egyptian obelisk in Piazza della Minerva beside the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome. The red-granite monument was brought to Rome in antiquity and was later mounted on a marble elephant designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The elephant base was install...

The Obelisk of Senusret I is a red-granite monolith erected for the Middle Kingdom ruler Senusret I of Egypt. It stands at the ancient sacred site of Heliopolis, near modern Cairo, where it formed part of a temple complex dedicated to the solar god. The monument carries hieroglyphic inscriptions nam...

Cleopatra’s Needle at Alexandria is an ancient Egyptian granite obelisk that originally stood at Heliopolis and was later transported to Alexandria for the Caesareum. Its inscriptions were first carved for Thutmose III and later supplemented by Ramesses II, while the association with Cleopatra comes...

The Bust of Akhenaten is an ancient Egyptian sandstone sculpture dating to the 18th Dynasty, currently housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. It depicts Pharaoh Akhenaten, who ruled from approximately 1353 to 1336 BCE and is known for abandoning traditional Egyptian polytheism in...

The Southern Obelisk of Hatshepsut is a red-granite obelisk erected at the temple complex of Karnak in ancient Thebes, modern Luxor. It was commissioned during the reign of Hatshepsut, the Eighteenth-Dynasty ruler, and bears hieroglyphic inscriptions presenting her royal titles and dedication of the...

The Sphinx of Tanis is a monumental pink granite sphinx from ancient Egypt, currently displayed in the Louvre Museum in Paris. The statue bears inscriptions of multiple pharaohs, including Amenemhat II of the 12th Dynasty and Ramesses II of the 19th Dynasty, reflecting the Egyptian practice of re-in...

This marble portrait bust, identified as Cleopatra VII, is part of the classical antiquities collection at the Altes Museum in Berlin. Dating to the mid-1st century BCE, it depicts the last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt wearing a royal diadem and a distinctive melon-coiffure hairsty...

The Bust of Thutmose III at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a fragmentary ancient Egyptian portrait sculpture carved from quartzite. It depicts the pharaoh Thutmose III of the 18th Dynasty, who ruled from approximately 1479 to 1425 BCE and is renowned for his extensive military campaigns that expa...

Housed in the British Museum, the Bust of Amenhotep III is a sculpted portrait of the pharaoh who presided over ancient Egypt during a period of unprecedented imperial wealth and power in the 18th Dynasty. Ruling from approximately 1388 to 1351 BCE, Amenhotep III was a prolific builder, and this art...

The Luxor Obelisk is a 23-meter-tall ancient Egyptian monument situated at the center of the Place de la Concorde in Paris, France. The obelisk, which dates back to the 13th century BC and originally stood at the entrance of the Luxor Temple, was gifted to France by Muhammad Ali of Egypt in 1829. It...

The Obelisk of Ramesses II in Turin is an ancient Egyptian monument displayed at the Museo Egizio in Turin, Italy. It was commissioned during the reign of Ramesses II in the thirteenth century BCE and is carved with hieroglyphic inscriptions connected with the pharaoh and Egyptian religious traditio...

The Kingston Lacy Obelisk is an ancient Egyptian monument of pink granite displayed on the Kingston Lacy estate in Dorset, England. Made around 150 BCE, it originally stood as one of a pair outside the Temple of Isis on the island of Philae in Aswan. William John Bankes arranged its removal from Egy...

Lying broken in the Karnak Temple Complex in Luxor, this fallen obelisk was originally erected by Pharaoh Thutmose III in the 15th century BCE to honor the sun god Amun-Ra.

The Dogali Obelisk is an ancient Egyptian red-granite monument now standing on Via delle Terme di Diocleziano in Rome. It originally came from Heliopolis and was later used at Rome's Temple of Isis before being rediscovered and erected in 1887 as a memorial to 548 Italian soldiers killed at Dogali i...

The Obelisks at Villa Torlonia are nineteenth-century garden monuments in the Roman estate now known as Villa Torlonia. The municipal museum describes two obelisks, erected in 1842 in pink granite, as memorials to Giovanni and Anna Maria Torlonia, the parents of Alessandro Torlonia. Their Egyptian-i...