Methodology
Every obelisk on this site is researched independently from museum collection records, UNESCO listings, academic references (particularly Labib Habachi's The Obelisks of Egypt), and government heritage bodies — cross-checked across at least two sources wherever possible, and written fresh rather than adapted from any single existing site.
Where sources disagree — and for obelisk height and weight, they disagree often — we note the range rather than presenting a false precision. Those entries are marked "In Progress" until we can reconcile the figures against a primary source.
Obelisk research is a genuinely small niche. The most thorough English-language catalogue of obelisks and obelisk fragments worldwide is the independent work of Hiroyuki Nagase and Shoji Okamoto at obelisks.org — a project built from over a decade of personal travel to nearly every obelisk on Earth.
This site is a separate, independently researched project — not affiliated with or copied from theirs — built with a different aim: a modern, filterable, map-based directory rather than a travelogue archive. For the deepest, most obscure fragments and non-public pieces, their fieldwork remains the most authoritative record in the field, and we credit it here rather than presenting harder-to-source facts as independently verified when they aren't yet.
Photographs are original where credited, or used under Creative Commons / public-domain licenses with attribution. We don't use images from any other obelisk website.
Spotted something we've got wrong, or an obelisk we're missing? We'd like to know — this dataset is a work in progress and will keep growing.