The obelisk of Thutmose I (r. circa 1504-1493 B.C.) is on the right, and that of his daughter, Hatshepsut (r. 1479-1458), on the left. One of Cleopatra’s Needles, a 224-ton Egyptian obelisk ...

A team of archaeologists, restorers and engineers of the Supreme Council of Antiquities managed to restore and erect the obelisk of Queen Hatshepsut, lying near the Sacred Lake in the Karnak temples.

To the right of it—that is, beyond the ruins of the Fourth Pylon—rears the obelisk of the pharaoh Hatshepsut, the largest still standing in Egypt. After the death of her father Tuthmosis I in ...

After decades of laying beside the sacred lake at Luxor’s Karnak Temple, a team of Egyptian restorers and archaeologists succeeded in re-erecting the restored Hatshepsut’s obelisk on Saturday.

a relief showing Hatshepsut as a sphinx “triumphing over her enemies” and another “describing the quarrying and transportation of two granite obelisks from the quarries at Aswan.” ...

There’s one in Central Park. Also known as Cleopatra’s Needles, obelisks were used as religious monuments in ancient Egypt. Hatshepsut’s greatest architectural achievement was her funerary ...

So difficult is the feat of building a monolithic obelisk that Pharaoh Hatshepsut had inscribed at the base of one of her obelisks the proud declaration: “without seam, without joining together.” ...

Along the Nile, the team will then test a model of an obelisk-carrying barge depicted on the walls of Hatshepsut's mortuary temple in Luxor. Smoking a shisha pipe at Deir el Bahri. Across the Nile ...

In the temple of the great god Amun at Karnak, there are four obelisks erected by Queen Hatshepsut, and they are among the most magnificent monuments ever built. It seems like the queen was afraid ...

She undertook grand building projects, including two pairs of imposing obelisks at Karnak and at her mortuary temple, Djeser-Djeseru. Upon Hatshepsut’s death in 1458 B.C., Thutmose III at last ...