French Egyptologist Jean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier noticed some unusual hieroglyphs on Paris's iconic obelisk in Place de la Concorde. The monument was erected during the reign of Ramesses II (reigned ca. 1279–1213 b.c.) and originally stood outside Egypt’s Luxor Temple, but was given to France in the 1830s.
Olette-Pelletier’s initial guess was that the unusual hieroglyphs could contain coded messages involving puzzles or wordplay that only Egypt’s educated and intellectual elite would have been able to understand.
During the cleaning of obelisk prior to 2024 Paris Olympics, Olette-Pelletier examined the hieroglyphs and confirmed that the symbols contain at least seven examples of crypto-hieroglyphics. Olette Pelletier remarked “Given the angle of approach, the nobility would have seen the hidden message and reflected: ‘the king confirms himself as god incarnate, who cannot be dethroned’”
Olette-Pellier's full findings are expected to be published in the Egyptology journal ENiM.
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