Egyptian Obelisk in Tahrir… Dream Come True

At the beginning, I would like to thank President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly, Antiquities Minister Khaled El Anany and Secretary General of the Antiquities Supreme Council, Mostafa Waziri, for the bold and important decision to put an Egyptian obelisk in Tahrir Square. The importance of the decision comes from that all fields of the world have distinctive tourist attractions and archaeological remarkable landmarks unlike Tahrir Square.

Tahrir, in Cairo, is the largest and most famous square in Egypt. The landmark statue of the famous Pharaoh King Ramses II was moved from Ramses Square to his new eternal residence at the front of the Great Egyptian Museum to welcome museum visitors from Arabs foreigners, as well as sons and daughters of the land.

It is known that the great Egyptian obelisks spread in a large number of world and capitals cities, such as the Ramses II obelisk that located in the famous Place de la Concorde in Paris.

The obelisk of King Ramses II was moved from the island garden to El Alamein city during the reign of the late President Gamal Abd El Nasser; it became significant to have a pharonic obelisk in the heart Egypt, to give a beautiful impression and become a famous archaeological site as well as marketing them via social media.

Pharonic obelisks are skyscrapers of ancient Egypt. It retains its importance, beauty and glory, as well as its artistic and historical value through the hieroglyphic texts that the Pharaoh Kings recorded.

The obelisks were made to defend the land of the blessed Egypt, as well as to preserve the unity and integrity of its territory, work to develop and boost prosperity of the land and provide the temples with everything they need.

Obelisks were an important symbol of the solar religion and the worship of the god Ra in the Matareya and Ain Shams areas in eastern Cairo.

Also, the obelisks were a religious embodiment of the sun's rays coming from the sky and falling to the ground through the refraction of the sun's rays on the ground; it formed through the top a hierarchical obelisk form. Hence came the building pyramids idea of ancient Egyptians.