a thing in 20 photos obelisk They have a cool obelisk memorial for the Battle of Bennington of the Revolutionary War. In the afternoon, I drove into Vermont to check out nearby Bennington. ...a few hundred feet down the road from my place is a miniature obelisk that demarcates the New York / Vermont border! The scaffolding fit the shape of the building even at the top! ...it completely covered up in rennovation scaffolding. We walked over to the Washington Monument to get a better look at.... L'aiguille de Cléopâtre. Cleopatra's Needle. Egypt's gift to France in 1826. (Originally stood on one side of the entry to Ramesses II at Luxor, which I visited back in 2008 The pedestal features lovely gold-inlaid diagrams that explain how they moved the 250-ton granite object. It's the closest thing to a time machine around. Epic! They're so tall that you can't take a picture of them without their perspective looking skewed and out of plumb. A view of the two standing obelisks from the other side of one of the walls. Here's me (in my stylish hat...pow! ) standing in front of the peak of one of the obelisks that's no longer standing upright. I took a lot of these kinds of pics to help me remember just how enormous the whole site is. Wandering around the outskirts of another section of the complex. A view of the base. There are two obelisks still standing. Each one is around 100' tall! Another rad photo of what the Karnac site looked like in the mid-Nineteenth Century. After going through the Hypostle Hall, you enter another part of the complex that has a bunch of huge obelisks. The Temple consists of four sections (or precincts), but the vast majority of what is open to the public is part of the Precinct of Amun-Re. The temple was built right near the ancient city of Thebes by Pharaoh Amenhotep III around 1,350 BC (over 3,300 years ago! ). 
