A Researcher Found Hidden Messages on an Obelisk. They Weren't Meant for Ordinary Eyes.

Hidden Message Discovered On 3,300-Year-Old Egyptian Obelisk In Paris

The scholar who identified the message has now found several others, which show that the Luxor Obelisk still has something to teach us about the ancient past.

A Researcher Found Hidden Messages on an Obelisk. They Weren't Meant for Ordinary Eyes.

Sneaky.

Egyptologist in Paris Discovers Secret Messages on the Luxor Obelisk

The 3,300-year-old monument has sat in the French capital's center for almost 200 years, but no one else noticed these strange encryptions.

Egyptologist Discovers Secret Hieroglyphs on Paris Obelisk from Ramses II

The Luxor Obelisk stands at Place de la Concorde in Paris, where hidden messages praising Ramses II were discovered in 2021. Credit: Rodney / CC BY-SA 2.0 A French Egyptologist has uncovered secret hieroglyphs hidden for more than 3,000 years on the Luxor Obelisk at Place de la Concorde in Paris. The discovery sheds new light on the political and religious messaging of Pharaoh Ramses II. Jean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier, a lecturer at the Catholi…

For almost two hundred years, Parisians have been crossing the Place de la Concorde, without knowing that the obelisk in its centre is hiding an encrypted message. A French Egyptologist has looked at the decryption of hieroglyphics at the top of the monument, revealing their meaning.

Paris' Iconic Luxor Obelisk Has Been Hiding Messages for 3,300 Years

For almost 200 years, the monumental Luxor Obelisk in Paris has stood proudly in the heart of Place de la Concorde, an enduring symbol of Egypt’s grandeur. But beneath its iconic surface, a hidden legacy of one of Egypt’s greatest pharaohs, Ramses II, has just been unveiled. An Unexpected Discovery The Luxor Obelisk, a 3,300-year-old relic originally erected by Ramses II at the entrance of the Luxor Temple in Egypt, found its way to Paris as a g…