 The granite was brought from the quarries of Aswan, near the first cataract of the Nile.The inscriptions were added about 200 years later by Ramesses II to commemorate his military victories.The obelisks were moved to Alexandria and set up in the Caesareum – a temple built by Cleopatra in honor of Mark Antony or Julius Caesar – by the Romans in 12 BC, during the reign of Augustus, but were toppled some time later.