For more than 3,000 years, secret hieroglyphics related to the pharaoh Ramses II have been hidden on the Luxor Obelisk at Place de la Concorde in Paris. The discovery was made in December 2021 by ...

Ancient propaganda supporting Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses II has been found on a 3,300-year-old obelisk in Paris, as revealed by Egyptologist Jean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier.

A researcher discovered hidden messages called hieroglyphic cryptographies on the Luxor Obelisk in France. Some of the hidden messages were propaganda asserting Ramses II’s power. Messages on ...

French Egyptologist Jean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier, a professor at the University of Paris-Sorbonne and the Catholic Institute of Paris, has discovered a series of hidden inscriptions on the obelisk ...

The Luxor Obelisk in Paris is one of two that he erected at the entrance of what today is known as the Luxor Temple—the ... Ramses II ruled from 1279 to 1213 BCE and is one of ancient Egypt’s ...

It took 20 days for archaeologists, restorers, engineering and workers to dismantle and pack the Ramses II obelisk from Cairo's Andalusia Garden in Zamalek, before the obelisk arrived at its new ...

The Luxor obelisk on the Place de la Concorde in Paris seen on May 15, 2025. AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard. He identified seven cryptographies, or codes, which assert Ramesses II’s authority from ...

A Ramses II obelisk, parts of which were unearthed in Egypt last August, is set to be fully re-assembled and displayed in downtown Cairo’s busy Tahrir Square, after the foundation of the monument was ...

The final part of King Ramses II obelisk has been installed in Cairo's Tahrir square, the Tourism and Antiquities Ministry announced Tuesday 11/2/2020. The obelisk was renovated and re-assembled by a ...

(Ramses II ruled for 70 years and had 100 children. Egypt paid the price. In A.D. 357, to commemorate his 20th year on the throne, Constantius II (r. A.D. 337-361) had two obelisks moved from the ...