a tall obelisk with egyptian writing on it

Obélisque de Louxor. The Luxor Obelisks are a pair of Ancient Egyptian obelisks, over 3,000 years old, carved to stand either side of the portal of the Luxor Temple in the reign of Ramesses II (c. 1250 BC). The right-hand (western) stone, 23 metres (75 ft) high, was moved in the 1830s to the Place de la Concorde in Paris, while the left-hand (eastern) obelisk remains in its location in Egypt.