Jean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier says he has identified seven sets of crypto-hieroglyphs on the 75-foot-tall structure, which ...

For the first time since 1934, the Washington Monument, just west of ... He modeled the monument on the obelisks that the Romans had brought from Egypt to Rome as booty. The classic proportions ...

At the western end of the National Mall, the Washington Monument towers over our country’s capital. The 555-foot obelisk—a four-sided stone pillar with a pyramid-shaped top—was built to ...

The giant obelisk honoring George Washington on the National Mall suggests the imaginative sway of Egyptian architecture and style in the 1830s when the design competition for the monument was held.