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The impressive, around 3,500 year old, unfinished obelisk in the granite quarries of Aswan, which, had it not cracked, would have been the largest monolithic (built from a single piece of stone) obelisk on earth.
41.75 meters long and would have weighed 1168 tons #ancientegypt Image
The work was discontinued when cracks in the rock convinced the engineers that the obelisk could not be extracted unbroken.

The exact date of the obelisk is not known, but it is assumed to be the Thutmoside period.
Further reading:
Building in Egypt: Pharaonic Stone Masonry. Dieter Arnold. Oxford University Press. 1991.

Ancient Egyptian Construction and Architecture. Somers Clarke and R. Engelbach. Dover Publications, New York 1990.

Photo courtesy mymodernmet.com/unfinished-obe…

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