The Luxor Obelisk

The Luxor Obelisk was erected on the Place de la Concorde in Paris on 25 October 1836. Originally from the Luxor Temple in Egypt, the 23.5-metre-high granite monolith dating from the 13^th c. b.c.e. was a gift from the Egyptian viceroy Muhammad Ali Pasha (1769–1849). It is carved with ca. 1,600 hieroglyphs that tell of the deeds of Ramses II.

Paris: Obelisk on the Place de la Concorde, colour photograph, 2008, photograph: Craig Booth; source: flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/craig_m_booth/2707308035/, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.de.