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Photo from Rev. James Baikie 

 WITH OBEI^ISK 01? TAHUTME:S I 



The first of the great soldier kings of Egypt was Tahutmes (Thothmes) I, the con- 

 queror of Nubia and Syria. At Karnak, which is a modern name for the northern half of 

 the ruins of Thebes, he built two great pylons or gateways before the temple of Amen-Ra, 

 and in front of one of them set up the great obelisk, 76 feet in height, shown in the picture. 

 Fine as this obelisk is, it is overshadowed by a still larger monolith erected by his great 

 daughter, Hatshepsut, the Queen Elizabeth of ancient Egypt. 



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