A researcher believes he has found hidden messages on a 3,300-year-old ancient Egyptian obelisk that is now in Paris.

Hieroglyphics carved on the famous ancient Egyptian Obelisk in Paris could be propaganda praising pharaoh Ramesses II as ...

Jean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier says he has identified seven sets of crypto-hieroglyphs on the 75-foot-tall structure, which ...

All seven messages on the Paris obelisk will soon be shared in a paper to be published in the Montpellier Egyptology journal ...

Nearly 200 years on from first being erected in Place de la Concorde, a French egyptologist has found new messages in the ...

Pelletier, claims to have discovered seven secret messages hidden within the hieroglyphic inscriptions on the Luxor Obelisk ...

The obelisk was apparently commissioned by Ramesses II, who ruled Egypt from 1279BC to 1213 BC, and installed in Luxor. It was given to France by the sultan of the Ottoman Empire in 1830.

The Luxor Obelisk, in Paris' Place de la Concorde, was constructed more than 3,000 years ago and is covered with ...