In a Board of Visitors meeting on Monday, the University announced vague plans for a new construction project — a 100-foot ...

Discovering preserved paint in ancient Egyptian temples is rare, but finding gold leaf is even less common. The Egyptians began covering columns, gates and obelisks with gold at the beginning of ...

ancient Egyptian pharaohs were building magnificent temples adorned with huge monuments that pointed to the sky. Called obelisks, these massive, pointed shafts of polished granite were often ...

“The obelisk is an architectural structure, of the type built in ancient Egypt and placed at the front entrance to temples,” he explains. “Various hieroglyphic inscriptions were engraved on ...