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  • Bronze Sphynx guarding Cleopatra’s Needle, made in Egypt for the Pharaoh Thotmes III in 1460 BC and brought to London from Alexandria the royal city of Cleopatra in 1878 photographed on the empty Embankment during the coronavirus pandemic on the 10th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Britain wanted something big and noticeable to commemorate the British victory in Egypt over Napoleon, sixty-three years earlier. At low tide you can step to the platform on the River side and place flower heads on the platform as an offering to the Thames Isis Goddess and wait. The rising water will splash up the steps then gradually over the platform from each side. When the two washes meet in the middle they slap together and form dual ripples which carry the flowers away. This huge granite structure was engineered precisely to do this and hidden in plain sight for those that can see.
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  • Bronze Sphynx guarding Cleopatra’s Needle, made in Egypt for the Pharaoh Thotmes III in 1460 BC and brought to London from Alexandria the royal city of Cleopatra in 1878 photographed on the empty Embankment during the coronavirus pandemic on the 10th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Britain wanted something big and noticeable to commemorate the British victory in Egypt over Napoleon, sixty-three years earlier. At low tide you can step to the platform on the River side and place flower heads on the platform as an offering to the Thames Isis Goddess and wait. The rising water will splash up the steps then gradually over the platform from each side. When the two washes meet in the middle they slap together and form dual ripples which carry the flowers away. This huge granite structure was engineered precisely to do this and hidden in plain sight for those that can see.
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  • Bronze Sphynx guarding Cleopatra’s Needle, made in Egypt for the Pharaoh Thotmes III in 1460 BC and brought to London from Alexandria the royal city of Cleopatra in 1878 photographed on the empty Embankment during the coronavirus pandemic on the 10th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Britain wanted something big and noticeable to commemorate the British victory in Egypt over Napoleon, sixty-three years earlier. At low tide you can step to the platform on the River side and place flower heads on the platform as an offering to the Thames Isis Goddess and wait. The rising water will splash up the steps then gradually over the platform from each side. When the two washes meet in the middle they slap together and form dual ripples which carry the flowers away. This huge granite structure was engineered precisely to do this and hidden in plain sight for those that can see.
    _E6A1194.jpg
  • The ancient Egyptian obelisk known as Cleopatra's Needle, on the Enbankment WC2. It is made of red granite, stand about 21 metres (68 ft) high, weigh about 224 tons and are inscribed with Egyptian hieroglyphs. They were originally erected in the Egyptian city of Heliopolis on the orders of Thutmose III, around 1450 BC. Cleopatra's Needle is the popular name for each of three Ancient Egyptian obelisks re-erected in London, Paris, and New York City during the nineteenth century. Although the needles are genuine Ancient Egyptian obelisks, they are somewhat misnamed as they have no particular connection with Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt, and were already over a thousand years old in her lifetime. The London "needle" was originally made during the reign of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh Thutmose III but was falsely named "Cleopatra's needle".
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  • Cleopatra’s Needle, made in Egypt for the Pharaoh Thotmes III in 1460 BC and brought to London from Alexandria the royal city of Cleopatra in 1878 photographed on the empty Embankment during the coronavirus pandemic on the 10th May 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Britain wanted something big and noticeable to commemorate the British victory in Egypt over Napoleon, sixty-three years earlier.
    _E6A1190.jpg
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