Though few onlookers have ever noticed, the famed golden-topped obelisk at the centre of Place de la Concorde in Paris has stood without a tip for nearly 200 years. Until Tuesday. In a ceremony attended by VIPs, a trainee craftworker showed no signs of vertigo as she placed a new gold-plated point atop the 3,000-year-old monument, which was gift to France from Egypt in 1830. The obelisk from the Luxor Temple "arrived in Paris without its tip which had been eroded over centuries," French conservation expert Isabelle Morin-Loutrel explained to AFP.
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