Ramses the Great's Obelisks: Giant Needles of Power

This episode follows Lucas and Luna as they explore Ramses the Great's monumental obelisks — the towering granite needles he raised at Karnak, Luxor, and beyond. They unpack how these massive monoliths were quarried at Aswan using dolerite hammers, transported on Nile barges, and erected by sheer manpower and ingenuity. The conversation touches on the symbolic meaning of the benben stone and the sun god Re, the logistical challenge of moving a 323-ton block, and the fate of Ramses's obelisks today — including the one now in Paris at the Place de la Concorde and its twin still standing at Luxor Temple. They also discuss the unfinished obelisk at Aswan, which reveals the entire quarrying process, and how Ramses used obelisks as political propaganda, inscribing his names and victories to assert divine kingship. The episode highlights the rivalry with earlier pharaohs like Hatshepsut and Thutmose III, and the later Roman and European relocations that scattered these Egyptian wonders across the globe. #RamsesTheGreat #AncientEgypt #Obelisks #Karnak #Luxor #Aswan #Benben #Monolith #Dolerite #UnfinishedObelisk #PlaceDeLaConcorde #Pharaoh #Kemet #NewKingdom #Engineering #Quarrying #History #FexingoHistory Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo