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

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

The Egyptian obelisk in Place de la Concorde in Paris may conceal hieroglyphic messages intended for the elite of ancient Egypt. These inscriptions, visible only from certain angles, glorify Pharaoh ...

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

The scholar who identified the message has now found several others, which show that the Luxor Obelisk still has something to ...

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

Pelletier discovered seven previously undocumented messages carved into the 3,300-year-old Luxor Obelisk in Paris.

But since 1836, it’s stood at Place de Concorde, a public square in Paris. The obelisk is covered in hieroglyphics—the ancient Egyptians’ pictorial writing system—and engraved with both ...

One hundred and eighty-nine years ago, a spectacular 3,300-year-old Egyptian obelisk was erected in Place de la Concorde, Paris, after it had been gifted to France by the viceroy of Egypt.