Cleopatra's Needle
CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK as if under the influence of frenzy, imme- diately followed her. They fled to Egypt, and declared to Augustus that if Egypt to England, but as no one knew how to move them, it was not taken to London Augustus, however, demanded Antony's death and advanced on Alexandria. Believing Cleopatra, who had taken refuge in her mausoleum, to be treacherous and dead, Antony threw himself on his sword, and shortly afterward Cleopatra killed herself by applying an asp to her arm to escape the ignominy of being led in a dead, Antony threw himself on his sword, and shortly afterward Cleopatra killed dynasty of the Ptolemies ended. herself by applying an asp to her arm to lisks that were set up at the entrance of the Temple of the Sun, in Heliopolis, Egypt, by Thothmes III., about 1500 в. c.
There are no means of knowing when they were built, or by whom, except from the inscriptions on them, which indicate the above time. The material of which they were cut is granite, brought from Syene, near the first cataract of the Nile.
Two centuries after their erection Ramthey were built, or by whom, except from the inscriptions on them, which indicate the above time. The material of which move them, it was not taken to London until 1878. Subsequently the other obelisk was presented to the United States, and is now in Central Park, New York City.