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Obelisk: A History (Publications of the Burndy Library)
Obelisk A History - Publications of the Burndy Library
Author: Brian A. Curran, Anthony Grafton, Pamela O. Long, Benjamin Weiss
Nearly every empire worthy of the name?from ancient Rome to the United States?has sought an Egyptian obelisk to place in the center of a ceremonial space. Obelisks?giant standing stones, invented in Ancient Egypt as sacred objects?serve no practical purpose. For much of their history their inscriptions, in Egyptian hieroglyphics, were completely...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780262512701
ISBN-10: 026251270X
Publication Date: 4/30/2009
Pages: 384
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Publisher: The MIT Press
Book Type: Paperback
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