In 1995, a NOVA team dared to demonstrate firsthand what has mystified historians for millennia: how to raise an obelisk using only materials and techniques the ancient Egyptians might have used.

Question: In the NOVA about Stonehenge, the A-frame you made had the ropes that the volunteers pull higher than the ropes connected to the rock, and in the NOVA about the obelisk, you had the ...

"Obelisks comprise a class of diverse RNAs that have colonized, and gone unnoticed in, human, and global microbiomes," the ...

The researchers are calling these virus-like structures “obelisks”, due to their presumed microscopic shape. These entities replicate like viruses, but are much smaller and simpler.

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Sep. 13—A trial in a local organization's civil case against the city of Santa Fe wrapped up late Friday morning, but a judge hasn't yet decided the future of the toppled Plaza obelisk ...

Santa Fe Mayor Alan Webber took the stand Thursday in a bench trial that could decide the fate of the Plaza obelisk. “We were facing the prospect of civil unrest, a potentially dangerous ...