Rewind: The Mystery of the Central Park Obelisk
The Bowery Boys: New York City History
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Cleopatra's Ness - The Hieroglyphics
All four sides of cleopatra's needle contain hieroglyphic that were added by the ruler tutmus the third, and then later embellished by ramsey the second 300 years later. On each side write trumpeting their victories. This is same on all four sides of this thing that is sitting on this pedestal way at the top of this hill in central park,. kind of out of place, except that it's been there for over a hundred and 30 years, right? And yet it still feels out of place. But but now we've, we've situated up in the build up to this, i think that you mentioned another jecty. I mean, this going
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