Egyptologist Bob Brier to give lecture on Luxor Obelisk

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Mon, 11 Oct 2021 - 02:53 GMT

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Mon, 11 Oct 2021 - 02:53 GMT

 

 
CAIRO - 11 October 2021: On Wednesday, October 13, Egyptologist and author Dr. Bob Brier will give a talk about his most recent book The Luxor Obelisk and Its Voyage to Paris (AUC Press, 2021) in the Main Lecture Hall of Cairo’s National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (NMEC), Fustat.
 
The event, organized by NMEC and AUC Press, is open to the public. It will begin at 6:30pm and will include a Q&A session. Due to limited seating, attendees must RSVP via Whatsapp at 01222612192 or book through an online form https://forms.gle/xsjJyz2NEo1wRAiE8.
 
The Luxor Obelisk and Its Voyage to Paris by Apollinaire Lebas, introduced and translated from French by Bob Brier and Colette Fossez Sumner, recounts the epic voyage of one of Egypt’s treasures to the French capital. Transporting the two-hundred-and-fifty-ton Luxor obelisk from Egypt to Paris was one of the great engineering triumphs of the early nineteenth century. No obelisk this size had left Egypt in nearly two thousand years, and the task of bringing it fell to a young engineer, Apollinaire Lebas, a man of extraordinary resolve and ability. On October 25, 1836 before two hundred thousand cheering Parisians, Lebas raised his obelisk. In the nineteenth century three massive obelisks left Egypt for Paris, London, and New York. The story of the Paris obelisk, despite being the first of the three to be moved, is not well known to the English-speaking world.

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