The Wind that Moved Obelisks: Cleopatra’s Needle in the Imperial Power Sphere

It is a sunny Saturday afternoon in Central Park. As New Yorkers enjoy the unseasonably favorable late October weather, the oldest inhabitant of the park stands solemnly in one corner against a background of trees. The Egyptian obelisk, known as Cleopatra’s Needle, has stood in the park, across from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, for […]

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