It commemorates the Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775. This granite obelisk was one of the first significant monuments built in the U.S. and a tribute to the early Revolutionary War soldiers.

It’s important to remember exactly who we venerated with a 75-foot granite obelisk in the center of downtown for more than a century. As much as the lawyers for the Vance cause want to keep ...

In 1995, a NOVA team dared to demonstrate firsthand what has mystified historians for millennia: how to raise an obelisk using only materials and techniques the ancient Egyptians might have used.

In 1550 B.C., more than 1,200 years after the Great Pyramids were finished, ancient Egyptian pharaohs were building magnificent temples adorned with huge monuments that pointed to the sky.