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A World Beneath the Sands by Toby Wilkinson review – the golden age of Egyptology Tom Holland © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Thibault Camus/AP In 1880, a ship from Alexandria moored off 23rd Street, New York City. On board was an obelisk. Nothing proclaimed imperial might quite like a phallic pharaonic monument. This was why, in ancient times, obelisks had been transported to both Rome and Constantinople. Now, in the 19th century, the capitals of more recent empires were getting in on the act. Paris had an obelisk. London had an obelisk. No wonder civic leaders in New York, eager to draw attention to the growing wealth and might of America’s financial capital, should have been desperate to obtain one as well. “It would be absurd for the people of any great city,” as the New York Herald put it, “to hope to be happy without an Egyptian obelisk.”

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