Unfinished Obelisk, Aswan (Egypt)
Sheyakhah Oula Qism Aswan Aswan Governorate 1241771 Egypt
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Unfinished Obelisk
The unfinished obelisk is the largest known ancient obelisk and is located in the northern region of the stone quarries of ancient Egypt in Aswan Egypt. It was studied in detail by Reginald Engelbach in 1922. The obelisk and wider quarry were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1979 along with other examples of Upper Egyptian architecture as part of the Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae. Besides the unfinished obelisk an unfinished partly worked obelisk base was discovered in 2005 at the quarries of Aswan. Also discovered were some rock carvings and remains that may correspond to the site where most of the famous obelisks were worked. All these quarries in Aswan and the unfinished objects are an open-air museum and are officially protected by the Egyptian government as an archeological sites.
Latitude: 24.076889 Longitude :32.895459
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