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Cleopatra’s Needle is an ancient Egyptian obelisk carved during the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh Thutmose III (1550 BC – 1295 BC). Etched along its sides 200 years after it was created, are Egyptian hieroglyphs commemorating the military victories of Ramesses II. The ancient obelisk was given to the U.K. in 1819 by Mohammed Ali, the ruler…