This is a quarry, a step up, you can clearly see the outline of an obelisk, embedded in the boulder, not yet mined when the obelisk appeared fault, so the work was stopped.

An unfinished obelisk in the quarry is an unfinished obelisk in the remains of an ancient Egyptian quarry in Egypt. The obelisk is said to be the largest known obelisk in Egypt, and it is about a third larger than all the obelisks found in ancient Egypt. It is one of the seven major discoveries in Egypt, although only an unfinished obelisk, but has deep historical and cultural archaeological value, because of its discovery, we only speculated about the process of making obelisks that year.

The obelisk is a symbol of Egypt and the most distinctive symbol of ancient Egyptian civilization besides the pyramids. Aswan's unfinished obelisk is the largest and heaviest in Egypt. There are many reasons why it was not completed at that time. It is worth discussing later. When we saw it, it lay in a pile of rocks on the hill with patterns on it.

At the southernmost end of Egypt, the dam is Sudan. The temperature here is about 26 degrees similar to Hainan. In summer, it can reach more than 50 degrees. The city of Aswan feels like a county along the river. There is an unfinished Obelisk in the city. For Egyptians, it is a pity. If it can be completed, it will weigh nearly 1500 tons according to the current 42-meter length. Of the more than 800 obelisks in Egypt, the largest and highest. It is said that this obelisk was abandoned because of a crack in the middle of it. The obelisk was located in a quarry of ancient Egyptians called the North Quarry, where red granite was produced and the stone used to build the Egyptian pyramid was mined in Aswan and then transported to Cairo through the Nile River.

Yaswan was the best granite origin in ancient Egypt, the ancient Egyptians used granite to make statues, decorate temples, pyramids and obelisks, this unfinished obelisk was ordered to be built in the 15th century BC, but unfortunately because of the granite cracks, forced to suspend the chisel plan

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