Cleopatra's Needle and Shell Mex House, Victoria Embankment
Cleopatra's Needle is an Ancient Egyptian obelisks re-erected in London during the nineteenth century. It has no connection with the Ptolemaic Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt, and was already over a thousand years old in her lifetime. It was originally made during the reign of 18th Dynasty Pharaoh Thutmose III. It was originally erected in the Egyptian city of Heliopolis on the orders of Thutmose III, around 1450 BC. It remained in Alexandria until October 1877 when it was transported to London.
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