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2007-01-23 08:37:06 · 8 answers · asked by celia 1 in Arts & Humanities Visual Arts Sculpture

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Google is your friend. Do a search using quotation marks for the exact phrase:
"obelisk of luxor"
http://www.google.com/custom?as_q=%22obelisk+of+luxor%22&as_sitesearch=

The answer is Paris.

2007-01-23 08:44:47 · answer #1 · answered by pixelscapes 3 · 0 0

Umm Luxor, Egypt.
http://www.luxorguide.com/

2007-01-23 16:44:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

An obelisk is a monolithic stone monument whose four sides, which generally carry inscriptions, gently taper into a pyramidion at the top. The ancient Egyptians usually erected them in pairs and associated them with the rays of the Sun, which increase in width as they reach the Earth. The earliest known examples, excavated at Abu Sir, Egypt, date from the Old Kingdom during the reign of Neuserre (2449-2417 B.C.). The unfinished obelisk in the quarry at Aswan shows how these monuments, some more than 32 m (105 ft) long, were cut as single pieces of red granite. Their transport on barges down the Nile is depicted on relief sculptures. So popular were these monuments among the Roman emperors that 13 of them were taken to Rome. Today, in addition to Cleopatra's Needles in London and New York, historic Egyptian examples stand in Paris, Florence, and Rome.

The Place de la Concorde is the largest public square in Paris

2007-01-23 16:52:03 · answer #3 · answered by paradise 4 · 0 0

Paris

2007-01-23 16:45:03 · answer #4 · answered by bikebloke 2 · 0 0

Paris, France

2007-01-23 16:55:40 · answer #5 · answered by Tyberius 2 · 0 0

Paree! It is on the Champs Elysees Avenue and from this central position you can look straight along the road to the Louvre in one direction and the Arc de Triomphe in the other. Beautiful!

2007-01-23 16:56:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

It's located in the public square(Concorde) Paris

2007-01-23 16:47:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

it's in Paris, France........in the "Place de la Concorde". It was given to the French in the 1820's by Mehemet Ali, the viceroy of Egypt at the time.

2007-01-23 16:47:47 · answer #8 · answered by John 1 · 0 1

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