Specific Location: Thames Embankment

Cleopatra’s Needle is made of red granite and stands 68ft. It is one of three ‘Needles’, the other two being in Paris and New York. Although named after Cleopatra they actually date from 1450BC and the reign of Thutmose III. The inscriptions date from roughly 1250BC and were probably added on the order of Ramesses II as they mention his great victories.