We also look at representations of ships, of the pharaoh Hatshepsuts' ship, in particular, carrying an obelisk on a big barge. What do art historians who are also Egyptologists say about the ...

Story: After the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, the ruler of Egypt, the Khedive Ismail, promised the United States an obelisk. Henry Gorridge, a lieutenant commander of the U.S. Navy ...

The ship sank and James spent three days at sea in a zinc-lined ... that don't express explicit support for the Confederate cause. She considers the Edinburgh obelisk to be a tribute that James Smith ...