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The viceroy initially offered two obelisks from Alexandria, the so-called Cleopatra’s needles, but Champollion suggested the Luxor Obelisks as a substitute, because of the exquisite quality of their hieroglyphics.

From Washington Post • Jul. 1, 2022

Obelisks were the gifts of the pharaohs, often built in pairs at the entrances to temples.

From Washington Post • Apr. 14, 2016

Obelisks represent solar rays that were symbolically petrified, and the one at the kerb should be pointing its chiselled tip at her.

From The Guardian • Feb. 13, 2011

Obelisks were carved at the granite quarry in Aswan, Egypt.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman

Obelisks, Egyptian, iii, 30; Number of, at Rome, ii, 152; Removal of one by Fontana, iii, 33; Removal of one from Thebes to Paris, iii, 40; Cleopatra's Needles, iii, 42.

From Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3) by Spooner, Shearjashub