num_pages: 72
description: Around thirty-five hundred years ago, a crew of Egyptian stonecutters was sent to the dry and dusty quarries at Aswan. It was the reign of Thutmosis III, a great warrior-king and strategist, the Napoleon of Eighteenth-Dynasty Egypt.
language: English
title: The New York Obelisk, Or, How Cleopatra's Needle Came to New York and What Happened When It Got Here
titlecomplete: The New York Obelisk, Or, How Cleopatra's Needle Came to New York and What Happened When It Got Here
genres: History
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art