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Cleopatra's Needles: The Lost Obelisks of Egypt
Cleopatra's Needles The Lost Obelisks of Egypt
Author: Bob Brier
In the half-century between 1831 and 1881 three massive obelisks left Egypt for new lands. Prior to these journeys, the last large obelisk moved was the Vatican obelisk in 1586 ? one of the great engineering achievements of the Renaissance. Roman emperors moved more than a dozen, but left no records of how they did it. The nineteenth-century eng...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781474242936
ISBN-10: 1474242936
Publication Date: 4/21/2016
Pages: 240
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Book Type: Hardcover
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