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The Footnote June 27, 2026 · Central Park, New York

The Egyptian Obelisk That Crossed the Atlantic in 1880 in a Custom-Built Steamship and Now Stands in Central Park

The 21-metre granite obelisk known as Cleopatra's Needle was carved at Aswan for Pharaoh Thutmose III around 1450 BCE. The Khedive of Egypt gifted it to New York City in 1877. The 224-ton stone took 112 days to cross the Atlantic in the steamship Dessoug and was erected in Central Park on 22 January 1881. Modern atmospheric pollution has weathered it more in 145 years than the Egyptian desert did in 3,400.

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The Cabinet June 27, 2026 · Deir el-Bahri

The 18th-Dynasty Egyptian Queen Who Ruled as Pharaoh for Two Decades and Whose Name Her Stepson Ordered Chiselled Off Every Monument Twenty Years After Her Death

Hatshepsut ruled Egypt as pharaoh from approximately 1479 to 1458 BCE, the longest reign of any female ruler of ancient Egypt. About twenty years after her death her stepson Thutmose III ordered her cartouches systematically chiselled out of the public monuments she had built. Most of the erasures missed inaccessible interior surfaces, which is how Egyptologists reconstructed her reign in the 19th century.

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