The Luxor Obelisk and its voyage to Paris /
"Transporting the Luxor obelisk from Egypt to Paris was one of the great engineering triumphs of the early nineteenth century. No obelisk this size (two hundred and fifty tons) had left Egypt in nearly two thousand years, and the task of bringing it fell to a young engineer, Apollinaire Lebas,...
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Cairo; New York :
The American University in Cairo Press,
2021.
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