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Art Treasure of London: Two great bronze sphinxes guard Cleopatra's Needle on Victoria Embankment.Designed by George Vulliamy, who based them on statues from the reign of Thothmes III, they were placed at thefoot of the monument in 1882.The obelisk, one of a pair erected at Heliopolis, c.1450 BC, was a Napoleonic War trophy later presented to Britain by Mohammed Ali, the Turkish Viceroy of Egypt.When the 3,500 year-old, rose-pink granite Needle was unveiled on 12 September 1878, a passer-by is said to have remarked it was 'the oldest thing in London'.
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