Cleopatra’s Needle
Saturday, March 12th, 2005“Cleopatra’s Needle” The obelisk now in Central Park on Greywacke Knoll behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art, started out in the Aswan Quarry around 1475 B.C. (Photo of an unfinished obelisk there.) All the quarrying, carving and polishing was done there, and the finished product—69 feet 6 inches high and weighing 224 tons—was barged down [...]