The makers of the obelisks, that is the overseers in charge and the craftsmen, never signed their work, and this was usually the case in ancient Egypt, that the fine craftsmen, whatever the ...

The Ancient Egyptian obelisk at the Vatican is out of place, but not nearly as out of place as a lost Bible chapter that nobody knew about hiding somewhere you'd never expect: the Holy See's vault.

NOVA: Can you describe what your every day work is like, when you're not called off to Egypt to help raise an obelisk? LEHNER: I'm an archaeologist and I study ancient Egypt. I work at the ...

“The obelisk is an architectural structure, of the type built in ancient Egypt and placed at the front entrance to temples,” he explains. “Various hieroglyphic inscriptions were engraved on ...