See The Hanging Obelisk, Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza, Egypt

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The Hanging Obelisk at the Grand Egyptian Museum is one of the most unique archaeological displays in the world. It is the first obelisk to be exhibited in a way that allows visitors to see its underside, revealing inscriptions and cartouches that were previously hidden from view for more than 3500 years! The obelisk itself comes from Tanis, in the northeast Delta, Egypt’s capital for a brief time in the 21st and 22nd Dynasty during Libyan rule. Many of Ramses the Great’s monuments from the 19th Dynasty were brought here from his nearby city of Pi Ramses by these Libyan kings in the 8th and 9th century BCE.

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