In a technical sense, the Washington Monument isn’t an obelisk, because it isn’t made from a single piece of stone. That fact makes it no less impressive. Stretching 555 feet in the air, the ...

It ought to be mentioned that the Washington Monument isn’t a true obelisk, but merely obelisk-shaped. The original Egyptian obelisks, specimens of which now stand in Rome’s St. Peter’s ...

Made of granite and marble, the Washington Monument was designed to look like an Egyptian obelisk. Also, it was the tallest structure in the world until 1889, when the Eiffel Tower was completed ...

In our nation's capital one monument stands above them all: a 555-foot-tall marble obelisk that ended up the perfect expression of what our first president was, and still is, in the minds of the ...

In the 19th century, the Roman tradition of transporting obelisks from Egypt resumed. But this time, the monuments were gifts. The Egyptian government separated a pair of obelisks known as ...

On Dec. 6, 1884 — 36 years after construction had begun — the 3,300-pound aluminum capstone was placed atop the obelisk, making the Washington Monument, at 555 feet, the world’s tallest ...

The aforementioned first third of the obelisk was constructed by the Washington National Monument Society. They took it upon ...