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The unfinished obelisk in its quarry at Aswan, 1990. 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" (despite the quarry site being neither Nubian, nor between Abu Simbel and Philae). [2]
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Made of red granite, the obelisk stands about 21 metres (69 ft) high, weighs about 200 tons, [4] and is inscribed with Egyptian hieroglyphs.Originally erected in the Egyptian city of Heliopolis on the orders of Thutmose III, in 1475 BC, [4] the obelisk's granite was mined from the quarries of Aswan near the first cataract of the Nile.
The London needle is in the City of Westminster, on the Victoria Embankment near the Golden Jubilee Bridges. In 1819, Muhammad Ali Pasha gave Britain the fallen obelisk as a gift. However, Britain's prime minister at the time, Lord Liverpool , hesitated on having it brought to the country due to shipping expenses.
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The 40-short-ton (36 t) shaft of the obelisk is 38.5 feet (11.7 m) long: one for each year of Smith's life. The obelisk was quarried in Barre, Vermont, and it has been cited as a "remarkable engineering feat" [4] and "one of the largest polished shafts in the world". [5]
The earliest temple obelisk still in its original position is the 68-foot (20.7 m) 120-metric-ton (130-short-ton) [9] red granite Obelisk of Senusret I of the Twelfth Dynasty at Al-Matariyyah in modern Heliopolis.
The Lateran Obelisk is the largest standing ancient Egyptian obelisk in the world, and it is also the tallest obelisk in Italy. It originally weighed 413 tonnes (455 short tons), but after collapsing and being re-erected 4 metres (13 ft) shorter, now weighs around 300 tonnes (330 short tons). [ 1 ]