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- Author: Sir Erasmus Wilson
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- Category : Ancient Egypt
- Languages : en
- Pages : 250
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This delightful book tells the story of how Cleopatra's needle, the popular Egyptian obelisk that is now located in Manhattan's Central Park, came to New York in January of 1881.-- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
Excerpt from Cleopatra's Needle: With Brief Notes on Egypt and Egyptian Obelisks Heliopolis is still shown the venerable sycamore-tree, under which, according to traditional report, the Holy Family took shelter in their flight into Egypt. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.