Luxor Obelisk
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- obelisk
- Part of
- Luxor Temple
- Country
- France
- Located in
- 8th arrondissement of Paris
- Country of origin
- Egypt
- Material used
- stone
- Location
- Luxor
- Mass
- 222
- Image
- Obélisque Louqsor Concorde a.jpg
- Height
- 23
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- Commons category
- Luxor Obelisk
- located on street
- place de la Concorde
- inception
- 1290-00-00
- commissioned by
- Ramesses II
- postal code
- 75008
- native label
- Obélisque de Louxor
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Encyclopedic overview
The Luxor Obelisks (French: Obélisques de Louxor) are a pair of ancient Egyptian obelisks, over 3,000 years old, carved to stand at either side of the portal of the Luxor Temple in the reign of Ramesses II (c. 1250 BC). The right-hand (western) stone, 23 metres (75 ft) high, was gifted by Egypt to France in the 1830s and moved to the Place de la Concorde in Paris, while the left-hand (eastern) obelisk remains in its location in Egypt.
The Luxor Obelisk in Paris was classified officially as a monument historique in 1936.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Luxor Obelisk” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.