"Rezeption." . . "Obelisken" . . "Obelisken." . "Obelisk" . . "Obelisk." . "Obélisque." . . "Obélisques Histoire." . . "Obelisks." . . . . . . . . . "Obelisk : a history / Brian A. Curran ... [et al.]" . . . . . . . . . . . "Obelisk : a history"@en . . "Obelisk : a history" . . . . . . . . . "Nearly every empire worthy of the name--from ancient Rome to the United States--has sought an Egyptian obelisk to place in the center of a ceremonial space. Obelisks--giant standing stones, invented in Ancient Egypt as sacred objects--serve no practical purpose. This beautifully illustrated book traces the fate and many meanings of obelisks across nearly forty centuries--what they meant to the Egyptians, and how other cultures have borrowed, interpreted, understood, and misunderstood them through the years."@en . "Nearly every empire worthy of the name--from ancient Rome to the United States--has sought an Egyptian obelisk to place in the center of a ceremonial space. Obelisks--giant standing stones, invented in Ancient Egypt as sacred objects--serve no practical purpose. This beautifully illustrated book traces the fate and many meanings of obelisks across nearly forty centuries--what they meant to the Egyptians, and how other cultures have borrowed, interpreted, understood, and misunderstood them through the years." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Obelisk a history"@en . . . "Geschichte" . . "Geschichte." . "Westliche Welt." . . . . "obelisker" . . "Europa." . . "Obeliski historia." . . "Obelischi." . . "Geschichte 1500-2000." . . "Geschichte 1500-2000" . "Iconografie." . . "Oude geschiedenis." . . "Ägypten (Altertum)" . . "obélisque origines 21e s. (début)" . .