1. E-6 ANCIENT EGYPTIAN
HISTORY – THE NEW
KINGDOM A SUMMARY –
FALL 2011 AND SPRING
2012 – CLASS SIX
EDITED FEB 2012
Joe Boisvert – Adjunct Professor GCS College

5. Obelisks were prominent in the
architecture of the ancient Egyptians
 Placed the obelisks in pairs at the
entrance of temples.  These obelisks
 The word "obelisk" as used in are now dispersed
English today is of Greek rather around the world,
than Egyptian origin and fewer than
because Herodotus, the Greek
traveller, was one of the first half of them
classical writers to describe the remain in Egypt
objects.
 A number of ancient Egyptian
obelisks are known to have
survived, plus the "Unfinished
Obelisk" found partly hewn from its
quarry at Aswan

6. Obelisks Spread Around the World
 Egypt – 9

Pharaoh Tuthmosis , Karnak Temple, Luxor
 Pharaoh Ramses II Luxor Temple
 Pharaoh Hatshepsut Karnak Temple, Luxor
 Pharaoh Senusret I, Al-Masalla area
 Pharaoh Ramses III Luxor Museum
 Pharaoh Ramses II, Gezira Island, Cairo, 20.4 m[14]
 Pharaoh Ramses IIObelisk in Place de la Concorde, Paris
 Israel – 1
 Caesarea obelisk, Cairo International Airport16.97 m
 Pharaoh Seti II Karnak Temple, Luxor, 7 m
 Pharaoh Senusret I, Faiyum (ancient site of Crocodilopolis, 12.9 m[15]
 France – 1
 Pharaoh Ramses II, Luxor
 Italy – 11 (includes the only one located in the Vatican City)
 Rome — 8 ancient Egyptian obelisks (see List of obelisks in Rome)
 Piazza del Duomo, Catania (Sicily)
 Boboli Gardens (Florence)
 Urbino

7. Obelisk All Over Slide 2
 Poland – 1
 Ramses II, Poznań Archaeological Museum, Poznań (on loan
from Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Berlin)[16]
 Turkey – 1
 Pharaoh Tuthmosis III, in Square of Horses
 United Kingdom – 4
 Pharaoh Tuthmosis III, "Cleopatra's Needle", on Victoria
Embankment, London
 Pharaoh Amenhotep II, in the Oriental Museum, University of
Durham
 Pharaoh Ptolemy IX, Philae obelisk, at Kingston Lacy,
near Minster, Dorset
 Pharaoh Nectanebo II, British Museum, London (pair of obelisks)
 United States – 1
 Pharaoh Tuthmosis III second obelisks, "Cleopatra's Needle,
in Park, New York

8. Obelisk in Istanbul, Turkey
 The Obelisk of
Tuthmosis III,
Istanbul,
Turkey

9. Rome Has the Most Obelisks
 The Roman Emperors brought a good number
to Rome, the city with the world's record with
13 obelisks (12 in Rome and 1 in the Vatican
City) and also to Constantinople.
 When the Roman Empire was in decline, one
by one the obelisks began to fall, remaining
buried until the Renaissance when there
began to be interest in them again.

11. Cleopatra's Needle
London obelisk (aka Cleopatra's Needle):
Located on the banks of the River Thames, this
obelisk was transported to London and erected
in 1878 under the reign of Queen Victoria.
The obelisk originally stood in the Egyptian city
of On, or Heliopolis (the City of the Sun).
The Knights Templars' land extended to this
area of the Thames, where the Templars had
their own docks. Either side of the obelisk is
surrounded by a sphinx, also symbolism dating
back to the ancient world

13. Obelisk in Paris
 One of the two
Luxor obelisks in the
Place de la
Concorde in Paris

14. Washington Obelisk (aka Washington Monument):
Standing at 555 feet, the Washington Monument is the
tallest obelisk in the world and also the tallest standing
structure in Washington DC.
The monument's cornerstone, a 12-ton slab of marble,
was donated by the Grand Lodge of Freemasons. Like
the Vatican obelisk, the Washington monument too is
surrounded by a circle denoting the female.
It was designed by Robert Mills, an architect of the
1840s. The actual construction of the monument began
in 1848 but was not completed until 1884, almost 30
years after the architect's death. This hiatus in
construction happened a lack of funds, and the
intervention of the American Civil War.

15. Washington Monument is an obelisk near the
west end of the National Mall in Washington,
D.C – Not Egyptian
 Built to commemorate
the first U.S. president,
General George
Washington. The
monument, made
of marble, granite,
and bluestone gneiss, is
both the world's tallest
stone structure and the
world's tallest obelisk,
standing
555 feet 51⁄8 inches
(169.294 m).

16. Steeples Taken From Design of
Obelisks
 Christians should
know the steeples
on churches are
from the old Obelisk
and is Baal worship.

17. Battle Monument Bunker Hill,
Boston, Massachusetts
 Bunker Hill
Monument,
Charlestown,
Massachusett
s built
between 1827
and 1843.

18. Battle Monument in Vermont
 The Bennington
Battle
Monument in
Bennington,
Vermont, 1889.

19. 9 de Julio Avenue & the Obelisk. Buenos Aires,
Argentina

25. In ancient Egypt
dwarves were
regarded favorably
and could attain
positions of
power; Seneb was
apparently chief of the
royal textile works
under pharaoh Pepi
II. The modern day
Egyptian government
has used this image in
televised family
planning campaigns

26. Ramesses II (Ramesses
the Great; also Ramesses
II)

28. Hatshepsut, Queen Extraordinaire
Daughter of Tuthmosis I, her name means foremost of noble ladies. She
crowned herself pharaoh at the death of her husband, and dressed like a
man (along with the traditional fake beard). The 21-year rule of this builder
pharaoh Egypt was the most peaceful, said Wael.

29. Mummy Identified as Queen Hatshepsut
BERLIN -- A German university said Friday that researchers have
discovered a carcinogenic substance in a flask of lotion believed to
have belonged to Queen Hatshepsut, who ruled Egypt 3,500 years
ago – raising a possibility she may have accidentally poisoned herself.

30. Medical Research of Her Death
The University of Bonn said it spent two years researching
the dried-out contents of the flask, which is part of its
Egyptian Museum's collection and bears an inscription saying
it belonged to Hatshepshut.
It said the flask contains what appears to have been a lotion
or medicine used to tackle skin disorders such as eczema.
The contents included palm and nutmeg oil, along with fatty
acids of the kind that can relieve such disorders. There are
known to have been cases of skin diseases in Hatshepsut's
family, the university said.
Researchers also found benzopyrene, an aromatic and highly
carcinogenic hydrocarbon.

31. Egyptian Jackal God of the Dead Anubis
Anubis In Egyptian mythology, a jackal-headed god. Son of Nephthys
and Osiris, he conducted the souls of the dead to the underworld and presided
over mummification and funerals. Anubis accompanied Osiris on his world
conquest and buried him after his murder.