Obelisk, Heliopolis, Egypt Product:Canvas Scientific enquiry had increasingly been

Scientific enquiry had increasingly been conflicting with established religious beliefs

This cartoon was prompted by the publication of Andrew Mearns' The Bitter Cry of Outcast London

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Plate 7 from The zoological miscellany

A court at Holyroodhouse during George IV's Northern Excursion

Obelisk, Heliopolis, Egypt Product:Canvas Scientific enquiry had increasingly beenObelisk, Heliopolis, Egypt, c1890. The oldest standing Ancient Egyptian obelisk in existence, the example at Heliopolis was erected by the 12th Dynasty Pharaoh Senusret I, who ruled from 1971 to 1926 BC. It was one of a pair erected to commemorate the Heb Sed (30th Jubilee) of Senusret. Lantern slide.