Cleopatra's Needles

Cleopatra's Needle is the popular name (!) for each of two Ancient Egyptian obelisks formerly in Alexandria and re-erected in London and in Central Park, New York City during the nineteenth century.

London

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  London's Needle being erected, August 1878.
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  Cleopatras Needle from the River Thames, London
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  Close up of Cleopatra's Needle (London)
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  One of two sphinxes at the base of Cleopatra's Needle (London). The scars on the pedestal were from fragments of a bomb dropped close to this spot, during a World War I air raid.

New York

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  The Central Park obelisk as it stood in Alexandria, published 1884.
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  Cleopatra's Needle, Central Park, New York
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