An Unfinished Obelisk has been lying in the same quarry south of Aswan, Egypt for thousands of years. What started as a huge block of Aswan pink granite that was partially carved into an obelisk was left in the quarry due to cracks in the stone. It is thought that the carving of the obelisk was started during the reign of Queen Hatshepsut and later covered in sand until it was discovered in the early 1900s.
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The last of the stops included on our Nile River cruise - the Unfinished Obelisk.
Fun fact: Had the Unfinished Obelisk become a Finished Obelisk, it is estimated that it would have measured in at about 135 feet tall and weighed over 2.3 million pounds!
Fun fact: Had the Unfinished Obelisk become a Finished Obelisk, it is estimated that it would have measured in at about 135 feet tall and weighed over 2.3 million pounds!
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