Luxor Obelisk and Its Voyage to Paris
Luxor Obelisk and Its Voyage to Paris The extraordinary story of how an obelisk from the banks of Luxor was transferred to the Place de la Concorde in Paris in the early 19th centuryTransporting the…
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Luxor Obelisk and Its Voyage to Paris
The extraordinary story of how an obelisk from the banks of Luxor was transferred to the Place de la Concorde in Paris in the early 19th centuryTransporting the Luxor obelisk from Egypt to Paris was one of the great engineering triumphs of the early nineteenth century. His is a tale of adventure, excitement, and drama, but one hardly known to the English-speaking world.Lebas' team was struck by the plague; they ran out of wood; they had to wait four months for the Nile to rise to free their beached ship. No obelisk this size (two hundred and fifty tons) had left Egypt in nearly two thousand years, and the task of bringing it fell to a young engineer, Apollinaire Lebas, a man of extraordinary resolve and ability.
On October 25, 1836 before two hundred thousand cheering Parisians, But in the end, The Luxor, with its precious cargo on board, sailed down the Nile.
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