Photo from ISdwin A. Grosvenor 

 TWO OF THE MOST HISTORIC MONUMENTS OF THE WORLD 



The obelisk was brought to Constantinople by Constantine, who is nearer in time to us 

 than to the Egyptian king who had it cut out of the quarries of the Upper Nile. It was 

 raised m Constantinople 1,530 years ago, to mark the exact center of the world-renowned 

 Hippodrome, which dwarfed every building throughout the Roman East. Just to the right of 

 the center of the picture, above the +, may be seen the coils of the bronze serpent of Delphi, 

 which was also brought to the city by Constantine the Great. This bronze serpent was erected 

 at Delphi to commemorate the defeat of the Persian hordes at the battle of Platsea, several 

 .hundred years before Christ. Upon the coils can still be discerned the names of 19 of the 

 jmmortal cities which saved Greek civilization from destruction by Xerxes. 



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