The New York Obelisk: Cleopatra's Needle

Name: The New York Obelisk: Cleopatra's Needle
Author: Charles E. Moldenke

by Charles E. Moldenke

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The New York Obelisk: Cleopatra's Needle With a Preliminary Sketch of the History, Erection, Uses, and Signification of Obelisks

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Keith Edkins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

2014-11-03

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Cleopatra's Needle (New York, N.Y.)Inscriptions, Egyptian

About the author

Charles E. Moldenke

1860–1935

An American writer and Egyptologist with a gift for making ancient subjects feel vivid, he is best known for books on Cleopatra’s Needle in New York and on Egyptian texts. His work helped bring Egyptology to general readers in the late nineteenth century.

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