Jean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier says he has identified seven sets of crypto-hieroglyphs on the 75-foot-tall structure, which France received as a gift in 1836 ...

Think of it as a simple structure designed to grow ... Add in a box of 1-5/8-inch deck screws and the total cost for building ...

Warning lights The new elevator takes visitors to an observation deck in 70 seconds ... designed to look like an Egyptian obelisk. Also, it was the tallest structure in the world until 1889 ...

The obelisk - the centrepiece of a monument marking ... Image: How the monument used to look. Pic: AP The structure, made up of five spires with three Soviet stars at the top, was between two ...

A French Egyptologist says he has deciphered secret messages engraved on a 3,000-year-old Egyptian obelisk built during the reign of Ramses II. The 75-foot-tall stone structure once loomed outside ...