obelisks

"Five kids across centuries recount the history of Cleopatra's Needle, from its construction in ancient Egypt to moving it across the ocean to New York city in the 19th century"--Provided by publisher.

Follows a group of craftsmen, scholars and engineers as they try to solve the mystery of how the obelisks were erected.

Historians, archaeologists, engineers, and stonemasons study the construction of two architectural wonders--the Great Pyramid and an Egyptian obelisk--and test their theories about how they were built by attempting to replicate them with traditional tools.