Egyptologist Tweets Guide for Destroying an Obelisk, Protestors Use It To Tear Down Confederate Monument
Field-specific advice from an Egyptologist usually doesn’t have much practical application. When professor Sarah Parack tweeted instructions on how to tear down an obelisk, however, more than just archeology buffs were listening. Parack, a professor of Egyptology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, posted the step-by-step instructions from her research on ancient Egypt and suggested that the same method could be applied to more modern-day monuments — specifically, a Confederate monument in downtown Birmingham.