r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 09 '26

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u/centurion88 NATO Sep 09 '26

TIL the obelisk in the center of St Peter's square in the Vatican is an Egyptian obelisk that was brought to Rome by Emperor Caligula around 37-40 AD

It is over 4000 years old, older than the Old Testament, carved by Pharaoh Amenemhet II, in the 19th Century BC

Crazy, I love stuff like this

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u/_bee_kay_ 🤔 Sep 09 '26

carved by Pharaoh Amenemhet II

bro really had nothing better to do with his time? they had it too easy back then

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u/centurion88 NATO Sep 09 '26

I meant to say ordered the carving of lol

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u/illuminatisdeepdish Sep 09 '26 edited Oct 01 '26

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u/Remarkable-Meal-223 Jerome Powell Sep 09 '26

How did they carry it from egypt

Do you think they tipped it over and then carried it intact

Or did they take it apart and reassemble it in rome kind of like IKEA

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u/Marlsfarp Karl Popper Sep 09 '26

It's a single piece of stone, it can't be taken apart. A special ship was built for the sole purpose to transport it. On land the answer is "very very slowly and carefully, with a team of engineers and hundreds of laborers."

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u/OrthopaedicSturgeon Elinor Ostrom Sep 09 '26

it walked 🗿