The New York Obelisk: Cleopatra's Needle / With a Preliminary Sketch of the History, Erection, Uses, and Signification of Obelisks

by Charles E. Moldenke

Alexandria, the famous city founded by Alexander the Great on the site of the ancient

Rosetta is a considerable town at the mouth of the Rosetta branch of the Nile. Its world-wide fame is due to the fact that here a French engineer, Boussard, discovered in 1799 the stone which furnished the key for the interpretation of the Egyptian hieroglyphs.

Sais, in Egyptian

Busiris, in Egyptian

Tanis, in Egyptian