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Cleopatra's Needles: The Lost Obelisks of Egypt (Bloomsbury Egyptology) by Bob Brier is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Cleopatra's Needles: The Lost Obelisks of Egypt (Bloomsbury Egyptology) about?
In the half-century between 1831 and 1881 three massive obelisks left Egypt for new lands. Prior to these journeys, the last large obelisk moved was the Vatican obelisk in 1586 – one of the great engineering achievements of the Renaissance. Roman emperors moved more than a dozen, but left no records of how they did it. The nineteenth-century engineers entrusted with transporting the obelisks across oceans had to invent new methods, and they were far from certain that they would work. As the thre
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Bob Brier
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781474242943
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Architecture, Arts
- Rating
- 4.5 / 5 (68 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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