For almost 200 years, the monumental Luxor Obelisk in Paris has stood proudly in the heart of Place de la Concorde, an ...

For more than 3,000 years, secret hieroglyphics related to the pharaoh Ramses II have been hidden on the Luxor Obelisk […] ...

The 3,300-year-old monument has sat in the French capital's center for almost 200 years, but no one else noticed these ...

Pelletier discovered seven previously undocumented messages carved into the 3,300-year-old Luxor Obelisk in Paris.

Jean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier found messages affirming Ramses II as 'the incarnate king, who cannot be dethroned,' ...

A French Egyptologist, Dr. Jean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier, claims to have discovered seven secret messages hidden within the hieroglyphic inscriptions on the Luxor Obelisk in Paris’s Place de la ...

Secret hieroglyphs found in the Paris obelisk reveal how Pharaoh Ramses II used hidden messages to show divine power and ...

Located at Place de la Concorde in the city's eighth arrondissement, the Luxor Obelisk was made by the Egyptians more than 3,000 years ago. Carved from red granite, it was created under ...

The findings were made during the first full expert examination of the Luxor Obelisk’s upper sections since 1836.

In 1995, a NOVA team dared to demonstrate firsthand what has mystified historians for millennia: how to raise an obelisk using only materials and techniques the ancient Egyptians might have used.

It contains cuneiform text. Question: Would the Egyptians have used elephant power to raise the obelisk? They were excellent builders and had a great understanding of mechanics. It seems to me ...