Luxor Temple: Pylon with Obelisk (click and drag in image, left or right) This elegant temple rests along the Nile in the heart of the modern town of Luxor (site of ancient Thebes).

Smaller obelisks were usually placed in temples dedicated to Isis or Serapis, the Greco-Egyptian god. Today Rome has 13 Egyptian obelisks, far more than any other city—or country—in the world.

A second obelisk originally from the temple now resides in Paris at the eastern end of the Champs-Élysées. Recent travelers said the Temple of Luxor is one of the city's must-see attractions.

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Additionally, the messages in question can only be seen from a specific angle. In particular, when the obelisk stood at the entrance of Egypt’s Luxor Temple, one of the messages would have been ...

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It originally stood outside the Luxor Temple in Upper Egypt, alongside a twin obelisk, and both pillars were built around the 13 th century B.C. Experts can date the engravings back to Ramses II ...

Located about 2 miles northeast of the Temple of Luxor, the Karnak Temple Complex features multiple temples, two obelisks, hieroglyphs and a sacred lake that was used for special rituals.

An obelisk is photographed in Karnak Temple in Luxor, Egypt (Reuters) The hieroglyphics etched onto the four sides of the structure typically commemorated Ra, as well as different rulers and pharaohs.