New York’s 3500 year-old “needle”
July 22nd, 2008
The next time you’re soaking in the history at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, don’t forget to take a stroll into Central Park for a visit with Cleopatra’s Needle (East Side Drive and 81st St.).
This 71 foot, 244 ton Obelisk was erected in Heliopolis (Egypt) around 1500 BC and later moved to Alexandria around 12 B.C. In 1879, it was shipped to the U.S. (another went to London, while a third is in Paris) as a gift where it stands tall as the oldest man-made object in Central Park.
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