Category: History - American
§1. The present site of obelisks. 1-5. §2. By whom obelisks were erected. 5-7. §3. By whom obelisks were ransported. 7-8. §4. List of obelisks. 8-11. I. Erect Obelisks. 9-10. II. Prostrate Obelisks. 10-11.
§1. The present site of obelisks. 1-5. §2. By whom obelisks were erected. 5-7. §3. By whom obelisks were ransported. 7-8. §4. List of obelisks. 8-11. I. Erect Obelisks. 9-10. II...
2. Chapter II. The quarrying, transporting, and raising of obelisks. 12-173. Chapter III. The form, name, dimensions, invention, material,§1. The form of the obelisk and the pyramidion. 18-21. §2. The derivation of the name "obelisk". 21-22. §3. The dimensions of obelisks. 22-23. §4. The material of obelisks. 23-2...
4. Chapter V. The history of the New York Obelisk, and its removal5. Chapter VI. The inscriptions of the New York Obelisk. 46-78I. Inscriptions of Thothmes III. 46-61. The Pyramidion. 46-55. The Obelisk Proper. 56-61. II. Inscriptions of Ramses II. 62-71. {iv} Vertical columns. 62-70. The base. 71. III....
6. Chapter VII. Notes on the translation and the crabs. 79-837. Chapter VIII. Egypt: its geographical divisions and its cities. 84-928. CHAPTER I. (Page 1.) The goddess of victory in the form of a vulture9. CHAPTER II. (Page 12.) The goddess Nekheb, the tutelary deity of kings,10. CHAPTER IV. (Page 26.) The symbol of the god Horus of Edfu, represented11. CHAPTER V. (Page 35.) Ancient Alexandria reconstructed.The oldest nation on the globe sends her greeting to her youngest sister. The "Setting Sun" has shed its last rays on the Old World from Egypt's sunny land and now appears on th...
12. CHAPTER I§1. Obelisks have been found in various localities of the ancient Egyptian empire. Possibly almost every city of some prominence will have boasted of some, no matter how small,...
13. CHAPTER II§1. Egypt is undoubtedly in every respect a land of wonders. At the most remote period of its history we observe that it was already in such an advanced state of civilization, a...
14. CHAPTER III§1. Obelisks are monoliths, that is, they are made of _one_ piece of rock only. Pieces set up in the form of an obelisk are never considered one. The lofty shaft at Washington,...
15. CHAPTER IVThe most interesting point to be touched upon in our further investigation concerning obelisks is undoubtedly that with regard to their meaning and signification, or, in other w...
16. CHAPTER V§1. The obelisk in Central Park antedates our Christian era by more than fifteen centuries. The central columns of the four sides, being the first that were inscribed, record as...