The Needle's Tale
For many centuries, partly buried under Egyptian sands, lay a granite obelisk 69 feet long, weighing almost 200 tons. In
1811 the Ottoman Empire made a gift of this stone to King George III. The 4,000-mile journey to England took, surprisingly, over 70 years.
Robert Booth tells the story of how Cleopatra's Needle came to London.
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