Cleopatra's Needles: The Lost Obelisks of Egypt

by Bob Brier

Book Overview

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 engineers entrusted with transporting the obelisks across oceans had to invent new methods, and they were...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474242936
• ISBN13: 9781474242936
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.4"