Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1877 — Cleopatra’s Needle. [ARTICLE]

Cleopatra’s Needle.

In preparing to move tie obelisk at Alexandria, two inscriptions have been found upon it} one in Latin, the other in Greek, ' They fix as the year of its erection at Alex-. ! andria, by Barbarua, prelect of Egypt, the eighth yeßr,of Augustus Csesar’s reign; or , j about thirtv-two years before the birth of i 1 Christ. Fontiux, the engineer, did it.