Cleopatra's Needle - Gallery

Gallery

  • The Central Park obelisk as it stood in Alexandria, published 1884.

  • Close up of Cleopatra's Needle (London)

  • View from mid-Thames, 2009 repairs in progress (London)

  • 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.

  • Close up of one side of Cleopatra's Needle in New York

  • The plaque under the Cleopatra's Needle in New York

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