Mark the Spokesman
Sphinx
London, along with New York and Paris, is home to an ancient Egyptian obelisk, popularly (and wrongly) called Cleopatra’s Needle. The Needle is located on the Victoria Embankment near Embankment station. It was presented to the UK in 1819 by the ruler of Egypt and Sudan in commemoration of the victories at the Battle of the Nile and the Battle of Alexandria in 1801. The Needle is flanked by two bronze faux-Egyptian sphinxes that bear hieroglyphic inscriptions that say netjer nefer men-kheper-re di ankh (the good god, Thuthmosis III given life). In September 1917, during World War I, a bomb from a German air raid landed near the Needle. The damage remains deliberately unrepaired to this day and is visible in the form of shrapnel holes and gouges on the right-hand sphinx.
Sphinx
London, along with New York and Paris, is home to an ancient Egyptian obelisk, popularly (and wrongly) called Cleopatra’s Needle. The Needle is located on the Victoria Embankment near Embankment station. It was presented to the UK in 1819 by the ruler of Egypt and Sudan in commemoration of the victories at the Battle of the Nile and the Battle of Alexandria in 1801. The Needle is flanked by two bronze faux-Egyptian sphinxes that bear hieroglyphic inscriptions that say netjer nefer men-kheper-re di ankh (the good god, Thuthmosis III given life). In September 1917, during World War I, a bomb from a German air raid landed near the Needle. The damage remains deliberately unrepaired to this day and is visible in the form of shrapnel holes and gouges on the right-hand sphinx.