Assouan (Syène), Carrières de Granit - Ancien Système d'Extraction 1851–52, printed 1853–54 Félix Teynard French Most of the colossi and obelisks of ancient Egypt were cut from this granite quarry in Nubia. The clean diagonal mass in the center is an unfinished obelisk, evidently abandoned when a crack traveled down its 100-foot length. For Teynard, a civil engineer intent on describing the sites and monuments along the Nile, it served as a pointer sighting a distant temple just visible on the Assouan (Syène), Carrières de Granit - Ancien Système d'Extraction 261884

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