The largest obelisk ever built, never got off the ground. It cracked as they were carving it out of the granite hills in Aswan. It would have been 42 Meters (137 feet) tall and weighed over 1200 tons. Imagine the engineering it would have taken to get this on a barge and float down river. Most believe it was built by Hatchepsut and destined for the Temple at Karnak.
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