I've seen a few articles on this now. They keep calling it a "secret" message and "hieroglyphic cryptography," but then talk about how sufficiently literate people are supposed to understand it, and the content is along the lines of "The god-king cannot be dethroned" and "Make offerings to the gods." Nothing about this sounds like it was intended to be kept secret or confidential from anyone.<p>This seems more like fancy typesetting than cryptography, combined with an awareness that the writing at the top of a big tall obelisk will only be readable from a distance.
It's like an ancient version of<p>> You see the new and improved Oval Office as it becomes more and more beautiful with love. We handle it with great love and 24 carat gold. That always helps too. But it’s been a lot of fun going over some of the beautiful pictures that were stored in the vaults that were for many, many years, in some cases over 100 years, stored in vaults of the great presidents or almost great presidents or all having a reason for being up every one of them.
The news article was a true click-bait.<p>The messages were not secret at all, they were just written on the face of the obelisk that faces the river. Meaning that only visitors by boat would read them when docking rather than the poor pedestrians using the normal road.
You can change the link: <a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/hidden-messages-paris-luxor-obelisk-2636508" rel="nofollow">https://news.artnet.com/art-world/hidden-messages-paris-luxo...</a>
<a href="https://www.progres.net.eg/plusieurs-messages-caches-sur-lobelisque-de-la-concorde/" rel="nofollow">https://www.progres.net.eg/plusieurs-messages-caches-sur-lob...</a><p>In this article in French, they mention hieroglyphs encoded in the way arms and legs are drawn of a figure on the throne of Tutankhamun, and that only 6 Egyptologists in the whole worlds are able to decode them.<p>Hmmm, I wonder how mainstream these ideas are? Do other Egyptologists respect them?
Are the same messages on the obelisk in Central Park? I believe it's essentially the same obelisk. I walk by that one at least once a week. Pretty sad how much the NYC climate has damaged it, though, as opposed to the desert climate it originated from.