Secret Messages Detected On Egyptian Obelisk in Paris - Archaeology Magazine

Secret Messages Detected On Egyptian Obelisk in Paris - Archaeology Magazine

PARIS, FRANCE—Artnet reports that on his daily walks around Paris, French Egyptologist Jean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier began to notice unusual hieroglyphics on the giant obelisk standing in the city’s Place de la Concorde. The monument was erected during the reign of Ramesses II (reigned ca. 1279–1213 b.c.) and originally stood outside Egypt’s Luxor Temple, but was given to France in the 1830s. Olette-Pelletier believed that the carved stone blo…

Pharaoh only addressed it to the elite.