Egyptian style architecture. The Egyptian obelisk makes a fine monument, for a variety of war memorials, and in cemeteries – the strong association of Egypt with a culture centred on death made such Egyptian style particularly appropriate for such things. Among various larger Egyptian obelisks, we can return to Bath where there is a particularly tall Victoria memorial in the Royal Victoria Park, and we may note in passing that one of the proposals for the Albert Memorial was a giant obelisk of granite. Egyptians had pillars too, with horizontal divisions rather than just fluting to emphasize height, hieroglyphics, and capitals based on the lotus and papyrus leaves.