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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.” ...

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.” ...

Expressions of worry Hatshepsut inscribed on one of her obelisks at Karnak still resonate with an almost charming insecurity: "Now my heart turns this way and that, as I think what the people will ...

Though additions to the Temple of Luxor were made by many of Egypt's pharaohs (Tutankhamun, Horemheb and Hatshepsut ... this historic structure include an obelisk, hieroglyphs and an avenue ...