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 ...

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

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 ...

The famous ancient Egyptian obelisk in Paris may contain a series of hieroglyphic messages aimed at Egypt’s nobility that praise the pharaoh Ramesses II and say he was divinely chosen by the ...

Scientists have discovered a new inscription on the 3,300-year-old Luxor Obelisk in Paris’ Place de la Concorde that reveals that this ancient monument is still yielding Egyptian secrets.

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 ...