Tourist's visit the famous "Unfinished Obelisk" Granite quarry at Aswan, Egypt

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The granite quarries of ancient Aswan lay beside the Nile, thus providing easy access to boats for transporting this prized building stone to sites downstream. A crack in the granite stopped the cutting of what would have been an enormous obelisk (estimated at more than 40 meters high). Now the abandoned partially carved obelisk gives us information about how ancient stonecutters worked.

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Size: 5200px × 3387px
Location: Granite quarry at Aswan, Egypt
Photo credit: © Stuart972-Photography / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: ancient, egypt, granite, obelisk, quarry, stonecutters