Obelisk obelisk ... Obelisk of Senusert the First
It is the only remaining trace of the features of the city of (On) or Heliopolis in Greek and means the tower or the lighthouse and the history of this obelisk dates back to the middle age of the second millennium BC and the king who constructed it is from the kings of the Twelfth Dynasty who made a great effort in building the state after a period of previous decay This period which is not the oldest obelisk in the world as it is rumored, as there was in the same place an obelisk dating back to the era of the Sixth Dynasty an old country, as well as before there were obelisks funeral obelisks at the gates of cemeteries in Giza and Saqqara and back to the fifth family and some of them are free of writing and others It is mentioned The names of the deceased and some supplications for him