Unfinished Obelisk In Aswan

Get the chance to see the precious monuments of the beautiful city of Aswan in Egypt, enjoy luxurious trips with White Bird Travel to the Unfinished charming Obelisk, which dates back to the 18th Dynasty in the reign of Hatshepsut, and due to cracks that happened to the Obelisk the workers left unfinished forever, but thanks to this accident we were able to understand the mechanism of the construction of these great structure. The incomplete obelisk was supposed to be the bulk of the Egyptian construction, but it was incomplete because it was broken in the middle, as well as a partially incomplete obelisk base was found in quarries north of Aswan, as it has the Egyptian granite extracted.

Queen Hatshepsut ordered the construction of the deficient obelisk, and shed light on her exquisite design, it was going to be the largest obelisk in the world, it was supposed to be about 137 feet long and it was supposed to weigh about 1,200 tons. But unfortunately the cracks that appeared in the granite caused the project to fall; in addition to that they have also been used in construction for political and religious purposes.