The obelisk in Central Park, also known as Cleopatra's Needle, was formally dedicated on February 22nd, 1881 after a long trip involving ships, cannonballs, and the sharp corners put in place by ...

Gorringe had to build a track to transport the obelisk on land to Central Park (the obelisk moved about 100 feet per day across 96th Street to Broadway, south to 86th St., ...

Since 1881, the obelisk known as Cleopatra's Needle has stood in New York's Central Park, but Egyptian authorities threatens to change that if the monument is not taken better care of.

The obelisk was finally erected in Central Park in 1881. The 3,500-year-old structure is now undergoing a much-needed facelift. "The significance of the monument requires quite a bit of a delicate ...

The hieroglyphics adorning the obelisk date from the time of two pharaohs — Thutmose III (1479-1425 B.C.) and Ramesses II the Great (1279-1213 B.C.) — and pay tribute to their reign.

THAT WAS NEW YORK about the obelisk in Central Park. In 1869, Mr. Hulbert, then a correspondent for "The World," met the Khedive of Egypt. After a few … ...

Yet through an unlikely journey the 69-foot, 220-ton length of red granite would arrive in 1880 in New York City and become one of the icons of Central Park. Now the obelisk is needing a little ...

Napoleon reportedly admired this obelisk, but his orientalists thought it was too deteriorated and steered him to the Luxor obelisk that he brought back to Paris. Getting the 69-foot, 200-ton granite ...

HUDSON — Did you know that Frederic Church was a Commissioner of the New York City Department of Parks? Or that he sited Cleopatra’s Needle, the famous Egyptian obelisk in Central Park, during ...

Since 1881, the obelisk known as Cleopatra's Needle has stood in New York's Central Park, but a letter from the secretary general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities indicates that this may ...