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Save the Obelisk in Central Park
Image via Wikipedia In a letter addressed to the president of the Central Park Conservancy and the Mayor of New York City, Dr. Zahi Hawass, director of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, calls attention to the severe deterioration of the obelisk located in Central Park, commonly known as ‘Cleopatra’s Needle’. That title per se shows... »
Obelisk: A History
by Brian A. Curran (Author), Anthony Grafton (Author), Pamela O. Long (Author), Benjamin Weiss (Author) This beautifully illustrated book traces the fate and many meanings of obelisks across nearly forty centuries—what they meant to the Egyptians, and how other cultures have borrowed, interpreted, understood, and misunderstood them through the years. Nearly every empire worthy of the... »
Rocks don't need to be backed up
An excerpt from a thought provoking article by Henry Newman, an industry consultant with 28 years experience in high-performance computing and storage. My wife and I were in New York’s Central Park last fall when we saw a nearly 4,000-year-old Egyptian obelisk that has been remarkably well preserved, with hieroglyphs that were clearly legible —... »
