Obelisks around the world Obelisk of the Concorde Presiding over Paris’s Place de la Concorde since 1836, this obelisk is part of a pair that originally stood at the Temple of Luxor’s entrance.

Although the world’s most famous obelisks — Cleopatra’s needles and the Washington Monument, among them — are not exactly on the scale of garden ornaments, the dramatic form adapts very ...

There are around 30 ancient Egyptian obelisks around the world, but which is the biggest? The tallest standing one is the Lateran obelisk, reaching a huge 45.7 meters (150 feet) tall into the sky ...