Many of the stone obelisks were gone or broken.
Even the stone pathway winding through the stone obelisks was either buried in dirt or missing.
Her heart beat faster as she followed a familiar path through the obelisks.
Distressed by the damage, he jogged to the central square, where smaller obelisks marking lesser immortal Houses rose out of the ground.
Many inscriptions and ancient fragments may be seen built into the houses; in front of the Madonna delle Grazie is a bull in red Egyptian granite, and in the Piazza Papiniano the fragments of two Egyptian obelisks erected in A.D.