Jean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier says he has identified seven sets of crypto-hieroglyphs on the 75-foot-tall structure, which ...

A researcher believes he has found hidden messages on a 3,300-year-old ancient Egyptian obelisk that is now in Paris.

Sacred carvings etched into a 3,300-year-old Egyptian obelisk may finally have been deciphered, thanks to the work of French ...

The 3,300-year-old monument has sat in the French capital's center for almost 200 years, but no one else noticed these ...

The obelisk was apparently commissioned by Ramesses II, who ruled Egypt from 1279BC to 1213 BC, and installed in Luxor. It was given to France by the sultan of the Ottoman Empire in 1830.

The famous ancient Egyptian obelisk in Paris may contain a series of hieroglyphic messages aimed at Egypt’s nobility that praise the pharaoh Ramesses II and say he was divinely chosen by the ...

All seven messages on the Paris obelisk will soon be shared in a paper to be published in the Montpellier Egyptology journal ...

Pelletier discovered seven previously undocumented messages carved into the 3,300-year-old Luxor Obelisk in Paris.

Nearly 200 years on from first being erected in Place de la Concorde, a French egyptologist has found new messages in the ...

One hundred and eighty-nine years ago, a spectacular 3,300-year-old Egyptian obelisk was erected in Place de la Concorde, Paris, after it had been gifted to France by the viceroy of Egypt.