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Jeremiah 43:13 Central Park Obelisk, New York City Cleopatra's Needle is the popular, but inaccurate, name for each of three Ancient Egyptian obelisks re-erected in London, Paris, and New York City during the nineteenth century. The London and New York ones are a pair, while the Paris one comes from a different original site, where its twin remains. 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. Both examples are made of red granite, stand about 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. The material of which they were cut is granite, brought from the quarries of Aswan, near the first cataract of the Nile. The inscriptions were added about 200 years later by Ramesses II to commemorate his military victories. The obelisks were moved to Alexandria and set up in the Caesareum — a temple built by Cleopatra in honor of Mark Antony or Julius Caesar — by the Romans in 12 BC, during the reign of Augustus, but were toppled some time later. This had the fortuitous effect of burying their faces and so preserving most of the hieroglyphs from the effects of weathering. The New York Herald wrote at the time; "[Europe would] point the finger of scorn at us and intimate that we could never rise to any real moral grandeur until we had our obelisk." Egyptian obelisks, created from one slab of granite, were created in honor of the Sun god, depicting one of the sun’s “rays”. Vatican Obelisk: Raised in the Forum Iulium in Alexandria on Augustus's orders around 30–28 BC Brought to Rome by Caligula in AD 37 for the spina of the Vatican Circus.. Relocated by Pope Sixtus V in 1586; the first monumental obelisk raised in the modern period, it is the only obelisk in Rome that has not toppled since Roman times. Originally created with no hieroglyphics, but since 1586 has been inscribed with a memorial to the moving of the obelisk and exorcist formulas.