The Unfinished Obelisk is the single heaviest monument ancient Egyptians ever started (that we know of) and lies in a quarry in Aswan, a city up the Nile from Cairo and Luxor. Located in one of ...

The unfinished obelisk of Aswan. The large crack visible at its base explains why it was abandoned. ... Today Rome has 13 Egyptian obelisks, far more than any other city—or country—in the world.

Each block, quarried during the Ptolemaic Period of Ancient Egypt, is larger than the famous Stone of the Pregnant Woman at Baalbek and estimates say that each weighs between 2,000 and 3,000 tons.