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“Obelisks in Exile”: The Ethics of Obelisks Abroad
Obelisk. Paris, France. | Photo Credit: Sofia Costa Looming over Paris is the oldest monument in France: one of two Luxor obelisks meant to stand in Karnak. Across the channel, in England, another obelisk needles a cloud-heavy skyline. In Washington DC, an obelisk sits right across from the country’s political epicenter—the White House. It seems that, of all Egypt’s enduring symbols, the obelisk has found a seat in many countries over the centuries. For so long, “the obelisk [has] been admired and copied in various cities of Africa, Asia, and Europe” writes scholar W. R. Cooper in ‘A Short History of the Egyptian Obelisks’ (1877). Obelisk. Paris, France | Photo Credit: Deniz Demirci This phe

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